Somehow I had come to believe that because a person is in need, they are candidates for sympathy, not just charity. It was not that I wanted to buy her groceries, the government was already doing that. I wanted to buy her dignity. And yet, by judging her, I was the one taking her dignity away.

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

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.