The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.

God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to reassure us that we do not have to be afraid of the darkness because darkness will always yield to light. As theologian David Griffin puts in, God is all-powerful, His power enables people to deal with events beyond their control and He gives us the strength to do those things because He is with us.

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set out to defeat it. So, naturally, the mountain fights back and it is stronger than you are. We do not see the mountain as our enemy to be conquered. The purpose of our climb is to become one with the mountain and so it lifts us up and carries us along.

Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.