Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you WILL to love somebody, you can.

Every religion at its core is exclusive.

The old Indian proverb holds true. Once you've cut off a person's nose, there's no point in giving him a rose to smell.

Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing.

Jesus resisted the temptation of outrage and the quick fix of condemnation. He spent most of his time preparing wineskins before pouring new wine into them. Our tendency is to start pouring the wine into skins that will only burst.

The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction.

In a post-modern culture we need an apologetic that is felt and seen because if post-moderns are not feeling it, they are not believing it.