To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.

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.

what was there when nothing began, what will be there when everything ends?

This thing between them, the force of it, could devour the world. And if they picked it, picked them, it might very well cause the end of it.

A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat.

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.

And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

NVC is interested in learning that is motivated by reverence for life, by a desire to learn skills, to contribute better to our own well-being and the well-being of others.

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.

Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior.

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.