To take this one shot at life and live it with God is to take this one shot and have it reverberate across and around my world as if it were a million shots and more.

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.

Life is Death. Death is Life. Teach the deserving. Teach with passion. Learn always. Assume Nothing.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.

I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'

Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.