The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.

Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.

Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?

Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.

The moment that we think we know, we’ve lost our perspective on wisdom.

Conversion is not a single prayer. Conversion is pilgrimage.

To transform home is to transform the world.

Where do you live?' is ultimately a sacred question.

Good heart, good soul.

Faith is to believe what we do not see and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

To lie about a far country is easy

The past doesn't buy you much.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

Remember finally, that the ashes that were on your forehead are created from the burnt palms of last Palm Sunday. New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die.

I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped.

The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!