“What systems have you and your worship community built that are keeping you from fully entering into relationship with Jesus?”

Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together. And of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches. – How to make an American Quilt.

Said Pope John Paul II: God in His deepest mystery is not a solitude, but a family, since He has in Himself fatherhood, sonship, and the essence of the family, which is love.

While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.

Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.

Be fearlessly authentic.

No matter how busy you are, or how busy you think you are, the work will always be there tomorrow, but your friends might not be.

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge the more grief.

I Want to be Your Favorite Hello and Hardest Goodbye.

The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.

Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein IS the monster.

Eunoia: beautiful thinking; a well mind.

The tiger will see you hundred times before you see it once.

Life would be much easier if I had the source code.

It hurts now, but one day it will be your warm up.

There might be some people who can stop you temporarily, but you are the only one who can do it permanently.

Wake up early. Drink some juice, and eat well. Work hard. Be ambitious. Keep your priorities straight, your mind right, and your head up. Do well, live well, love well, and dress really well. Do what you love, love what you do. It is time to start living.

As athletes, we stand on the shoulders of giants. We must continue their fight on behalf our community.

We must put communities of color at the forefront of our COVID-19 recovery plan.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

You have the right to vote. You have the right to share your voice. you have the opportunity to shape the future of your community.

We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.

I don”t know if I like communism, and I don”t know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program.

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

Without community, there is no liberation.