It’s easier to be close to God during prayer time when you’re close to God all the time.

There is a season for everything under the sun—even when we can’t see the sun.

Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.

Strength is gathered on the journey, not granted at the outset.

What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?

Prayer is meant to happen everywhere. After all, Daniel prayed in the lion’s den. Jonah prayed in a fish’s stomach. Elijah prayed in the desert. And Jesus prayed on the cross.

Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.

Prayer is the main dish. Everything else is gravy.

You have to be near Him to hear Him.

There comes a point where you need to lose your religion in order to restore your relationship.

See every distraction as a clarion call back to prayer.

A huge part of losing weight is believing you have the power to do it.

When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld.

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

I've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more.

My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.

If you ever go to talk to an editor you don't want to be able to turn down a job because you can't do what is necessary.

To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.

Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?

You just have to know that you will always get up again. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but you will. And that's what'll make you stronger. That's what happened to me