“What is the Truth? It is that ugly thing so many want buried hidden away from our loved ones hidden away from the world yet is powerful enough to raise its head and break through the chains of denial we build to hold it in place.”

“Regardless of the truth - your perspecitve is your reality, unfortunately there may not be anyone else with the same perspective.”

“And, Evie, when you walk away from people, even strangers, you gotta know that their eyes follow you. And I'll tell you why because I've felt it myself. It's because they don't want to see the light that is Evie, the light that is you, walking away from them. They want to see it coming towards them and staying with them.”

“They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?”

“When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues”

“And the thing about falling in love is that no matter where you are when it happens, you can't help but to color those moments with beauty, even if you're in a location of ugliness. He made what would have been a place of nightmares into a place to dream.”

“We must admit that simply knowing the contents of the Bible is not a sure route to spiritual growth. There is an aweful assumption in evangelical churches that if we can just get the Word of God into people's heads, then the Spirit of God will apply it to their hearts. That assumption is aweful, not because the Spirit never does what the assumption supposes, but because it excused pastors and leaders from the responsibility to tangle with people's lives. Many remain safely hidden behind pulpits, hopelessly out of touch with the struggles of their congregations, proclaiming the Scriptures with a pompous accuracy that touches no one. Pulpits should provide bridges, not barriers, to life-changing relationships.”