In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous, maintaining at the same time a scientific orientation.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture

We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for us. I can solve a problem only when I say, "This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it."

A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light.