The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we’re listening.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

Death brings out the beauty in life.

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.

Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.