The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.

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.

We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.

Not the sadness, but the happiness, is the ultimate purpose of life.

The main thing is to learn to pray regularly, to do it systematically

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career.

You can't beat somebody with nobody.

It's harder to gain relevance or traction. But I'm of the opinion that if something's really good - not pretty good, but really, really good - people will hear about it.

The houses people live in reflect their opinions of themselves.

Real kindness seeks no return.