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

And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our trust in something other than God to redeem us. In so doing, we die to our broken natures in exchange for His perfect nature, and find unification with Him that will allow God to see us as one.

If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen. The truth is, you wouldn’t remember that movie a week later, except you’d feel robbed and want your money back. Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.