When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to waste away—and that would be the greatest waste of all.

Throughout history, the Poles have defended Europe. They would fight, and - between battles - they would eat and drink.

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent.

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.

The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.