Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.

If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me, along with all the dear animals in nature who care for their young at great cost to themselves and have suffered so much at the hands of humans.

The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.

The ego knows itself by comparison.