What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.

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!

Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.

Perhaps if I'd had God in my life growing up I would have been able to understand the total and complete unfairness of the universe rewarding mean girls

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.

By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.