“Reality is what we take to be true.What we take to be true is what we believe.What we believe is based upon our perceptions.What we perceive depends upon what we look for.What we look for depends upon what we think.What we think depends upon what we perceive.What we perceive determines what we believe.What we believe determines what we take to be true.What we take to be true is our reality.”

“No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.”

“We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.”

“The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.”

“Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them, than upon what they make us see in ourselves”

“We shouldn't go to the Bible to back up what we believe. We should look to the Bible to determine what we believe.”

“When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.”