“We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.”

“The vast and beautiful world is the home we share together.”

“The natural resources of the world do not belong to any person, organization, collective, or so-called nation.”

“The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.”

“We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.”

“Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.”

“Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.”

“Europe was set free largely thanks to the Protestant reformation that began to teach that believers dont have any assurances to salvation through the back doors.”

“We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef”

“Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.”

“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”

“If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the ...”