Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.

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In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool

Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.

Strive to be nurturing with yourself so you can be free!

Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.

When has the pope ever questioned the faith of another private citizen?

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

I did karate for a really long time, almost 10 years when I was younger.

I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western.

What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence...Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately...We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!