When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

Art is communication.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom.

To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.

The voice of Conscience has needed us to know again who we are in reality.

Yeah! Bring it on lake!" -Coach Gleeson Hedge

Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth

Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.

You have to know what you need. You need someone who's going to really push you hard. But they also need to understand that, emotionally, sometimes today's not the day to push so hard.

There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.

Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

There is no experimental data that exists that supports the view that the Earth's climate is changing in any dangerous way.