Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

I'll see you tomorrow, Mare. You know you want to see my ring.""And your tat, " she said, a smile in her voice.

Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.

Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge

There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break.

The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer.

The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.

There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.