The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning.

Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.

Faith is obedience, nothing else.

Faith is obedience nothing else.

Our task is not multiplying the number of our church members but making people happy

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

I've done a lotta big things.

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.

My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.

Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.