When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.

As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded withGod for one more day, one more week, one more month with her.

Some part of me broke in prayer that morning, and some part of me was reborn as I gave myself fully and completely to prayer and to God in that moment.

Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?

I first understood why Christians prayed for a savior in the form of a beautiful man. He had absolved me of the blue-streaked blond.

Even among the ugliness of evil that resonated throughout the green hills and flowering landscape, Northbrook was simply breathtaking to those who took the time to appreciate it.

If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

I'm too fiscally conservative for the Democrats and too socially liberal for the Republicans, like 75% of the American people.

If it is not to make the world better what is money for?

Use soft words in hard arguments.

I am definitely someone who needs to take a second by myself and stretch and breathe before a show.

We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.