Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.