I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t put me any place else.

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.

The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.

The passion I feel for you is more than you’re prepared for. - Eric

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

Take me to the pilot of your soul.

Stop. Stop everything. Then you will realize you are the freedom you have been searching for.

We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.

Don't ever take seriously, don't ever consider, don't even pay any attention to what a man says or does until he gets to about 30.

But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don’t want to do.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]