Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.

We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

Don't be afraid of outgiving God. It is impossible to do that.

Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously acknowledge the truth, no matter in what guise it comes to us.

In times when nothing stood but worsened, or grew strange, there was one constant good: she did not change.

In trusting Allah, remember that what's best for you might be what's most painful.

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

I'll do whatever it takes to win.