“We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.”

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren’t aware. We ignore the truth or we just don’t see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn’t allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Listen to other people tell their story, but don’t believe them. You know that it’s just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they’re lies, you’re free.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.

Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.

The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus’ resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.

You thought it wouldn’t live again. But it will live again.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.