I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?

We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.

It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere.