To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.

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.

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

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 gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which.

The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth and your attitude.

I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

The crabby little girls of today are the crabby old women of tomorrow!

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

It was a pleasure to burn.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.