The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

We do not have to have the correct answers to listen well. In fact, often the correct answers are a hindrance to listening well, for we become more anxious to give the correct answer than to hear.

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.

As soon as you talk about something that hasn't happened yet, it's bad luck.

When in doubt, grab power.

I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.

Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

Once our people get themselves into a position to make policy, they cease being our people.

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.