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

If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.

All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to put a halo on the notion of tolerance as if everything could be equally true. To deem all beliefs equally true is sheer nonsense for the simple reason that to deny that statement would also, then, be true. But if the denial of the statement is also true, then all religions are not true.

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

What is the message of Christmas? It is the birth of the One who promised peace, joy and love.