The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

The vibrant, real historic Christian faith is very wide and leaves lots and lots of room for varying perspectives. It's very diverse and wide, that's part of it's strength, life and vibrancy.

Your connection to yourself is also your connection to the divine. The more you are connected to yourself, the more you are connected to the divine. They are one and the same.

Maybe you'll win when hell freezes over."He raised an eyebrow."That could be easily arranged.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.

The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it.

Are you at work?" I asked. Not precisely, but that's a good suggestion.

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over.