I am the greatest obstacle to my greatest dreams.

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.

We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...

People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

You know, honey, husbands come and go but I'm still Cher at the end of the day.

No decision should be made on an empty shopping bag.

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.