Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Through the "Strength" of one and his simple existence, there will be a transformation affecting many because of just one life.

As long as your name is NOT Jesus, I CAN live without you

Simple design, intense content.

The point of any religion should be this: how to open your heart to love.

You might be a redneck if you entire family has ever sat around waiting for a call from the governor to spare a loved one.

But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.

If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.