When listeners become leaders, the world changes.

Faith is about the connection of people as much as it is about God. We are called to be in community and treat others with divine love.

If, in your attempt to follow Jesus, you exclude, condemn or discriminate against someone, you are doing it wrong.

Part of leadership is preparing those who follow to someday go on ahead without you.

We need to be the church that serves and loves people now, today, exactly where they are. Until then, we are simply managing decline.

Your message is only as loud as the actions that accompany it. Live your message and it will be heard loud and clear.

It's helpful to remember that God doesn't belong to Christians, Jews, Muslims or anyone. We belong to God, not the other way around.

Evangelism is more about being than being perfect.

If your ministry can't work without you, then it is no longer Christ-centered. Minister toward Jesus, not yourself.

Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship.

Don't be afraid to be exactly as awesome as you were created to be.

Sometimes it's easier to go on living, not even knowing who you are, when at least you know precisely where you are while you go on not knowing.

Tying the know means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.

The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.

As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out.

I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. And it was my secret thing and my passion.

Oh, I’ll fight you,” she promised, her eyes clear of shadows. “That’s the way I roll.