Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream and died without joy, in silence and isolation.

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.

The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.

The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn’t this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people.

It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers.

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.

The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.

People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.

I think the current book [for Christian apologetics] is by Lee Strobel, its called A Case for Christ.

To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.

We used to think that everything started in the lab. Now we realize that everything spins off the consumer.

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.