I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people.

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us of God's suffering, God's pain, God's broken heart. It's God making the first move and then waiting for our response.

I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven to earth right now, as Jesus taught us to pray: 'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' At the same time, it often appears that those who talk the most about relieving suffering now talk the least about heaven when we die.

We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.

It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.