God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement. Allow me to laugh respectfully. I shall wait for it resolutely,...

Sometimes the answers you need to hear aren’t the answers you want to hear.

a criminal sketch of Christon a diner napkin-‘Poet Prophets

Guess what, Jesus loves to walk with us. He loves to be with us all the time—not just in the scheduled time or in the leftovers. The only change He wants is our hearts.Let’s change...

The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others.

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

Life doesn’t walk away, we do.

Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God...

And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long...

God Only Knows the Issue.

He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward,...

You’re neither a man or a woman, but the Whole of the One, human.

Haven’t my past sermons taught you anything?””Yes,” Emilie threw at him, “that you pray for those who are close to God, and those who aren’t, who need Him, you toss away like garbage.

Without God all things are permitted.

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

We thought that life imprisonment without the possibility of parole was enough. We didn’t want to be the judge about somebody else’s life. We wanted God to be the judge.

Telling someone like my mother that Hell is a real, physical place, somewhere you can travel to and from, would be like spray-painting the statue of Jesus hanging over the pulpit during mass. Better off...

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings.

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing.

Nature never remembers, that’s why she’s beautiful.

Sinatra and I, my God, we got on wonderfully. We had great times together. When he came in, he had complete concentration.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward whatlooks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

The Creator did not speak man into existence as He did all else which He made, but He began with previously made material. So in the restoration process He did not speak the restoration into...

Bush, you must admit that you have been defeated in Iraq and that you are being defeated in Afghanistan and that you will soon be defeated in Palestine, with the help and strength of God.

The act of committing yourself to the Lord daily allows Him to guide you.

I want my heart to be the thin place. I don’t want to board a plane to feel the kiss of heaven. I want to carry it with me wherever I go. I want my...

Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.

For you the guy should be the one who will look like the God among the guys.

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you’ll ever do.

God must build our anointing strong, so He can lay His glory thick.

Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than what has taken place in your past.

What sense is there in pain at all—however we contrive it for ourselves as we cast about for ways to bind up the wound between us and God?

He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is...

By what I see, do I think he’s capable of playing a lot? Yes. Only God and he knows how much he’s going to play, and the manager.

Let a clear understanding of your identity In Christ shed light on all the ways you can live out your purpose.

These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmengive themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity...

God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife.

He’s got a letter from God. Anyone’s going to be inquisitive enough to consider him.

The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the environment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by...

It’s true. I’ve seen it when the crescent moon shone bright on a cold, dark night. The darker the night, the brighter God’s smile.

Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise and poor Ra lost...

O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let mewear a Walkman…

Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action.

Deeply immersed in a constant bubble bath of sin, you cannot communicate with Jesus Christ unless you are ready to get out of the bath. John 1:9

Your heart of devotion and obedience is not in vain. Who knows but God how many people have come near to you and were forever changed simply by the fragrance of his love in you?...

Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist’s voice!

If you lose God’s paradise in Heaven, then you never existed.

Most accounts of mystical experiences… insist that the Other in the encounter appears to be “living” or alive, as in “living God.” But is it alive in any biological sense? Does it eat and metabolize?...