It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

Jesus didn't come to save us just from the penalty of our sins; he came to save us from our sins - now, today, if we will only respond to the challenge and let him.

Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.

As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn’t make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn’t the one driving.

The idea being that if I was so incredibly small, then I could do almost anything, because what impact would I have, really? What damage could be done, being so puny in the big scheme?

Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more.

Gossip is the sound of jealously.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

God hears and He sees, and you are not alone in your struggles. Remain firm and stable, for God has your deliverance planned.

To me, the definition of sexy - at any age - is strength and confidence.

On the roads of failure, it is not uncommon to see the tears of the talented; and in the land of success, to hear the victorious screams of the incompetent!

When you find yourself about to say something that crosses a line, something that could cause irreparable harm, sometimes the best you can do is just not say that thing.

Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.