Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won-some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it-but something to carry doggedly through everything.

I decide to put love in everything I do from this day forward. With every fold of laundry, every push of the grocery cart, every stir of a pot, and every word spoken, I will emanate love.

We already had three steps behind us."Hold on, Lia, " I whispered. Hold on for me.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

A cat, by any other name, is still a sneaky little furball that barfs on the furniture.

We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.

The secret of creating anything new in your life consists of creating new commitments and then holding the tiller to your new course until it becomes established as a behavior.

The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.