Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

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.

Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

Birkenau simmered in the July sun like some hideous brew, a witch's potion of blood, sweat, smoke, and excrement worthy of something the weird sisters might have cooked up in Macbeth.

Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.

Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it?

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it