You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

You are free to love without an agenda

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.

Later, with strange galaxies turning in slow gavotte overhead, neither thought the act of love had ever been so sweet, so full

Doing the right thing because you love someone sucks sometimes.

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.

To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

Good leaders must first become good servants.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.