Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us

So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.

God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.

The dream is yours… why are you asking others to validate or nourish it? Your journey must be self-propelled. It must be fueled from within.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

I'm just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can. I've just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.

Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.

When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?'

Today, recall a favorite memory, which serves as a gateway to uplifting feelings and thoughts.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel.

I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.