Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.

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.

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

It's clear why they only served bread and wine at the Last Supper. It was a potluck . . . organized by men.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

Everything costs and costs the earth.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

Do you want a happy heart when you are old? Then get with the Lord and stay with Him. That is how it works.