While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.