With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me.

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.

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

If you want to serve the age, betray it.

The world is not the illusion. It's you who are the illusion.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.

Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.

You can't look at the tax cut on a family until you realized how - how much better off they're going to be in a growing economy.