If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not.

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.

To be a better person, spend less time filling out your personal scorecard and more time being kind . . . to you.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong

Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.

I went to college to play football, not to study it.

But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.

I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.

You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around.

I think a lot of things could be handled locally.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week.