Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.

We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

If you can't do anything but fight, so every single solitary thing, every single solitary day, then the privilege of dreaming becomes something that only a few people have.

You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just be beautiful, and life will defend you.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.

The landscape of the American West has to be seen to believed and has to be believed to be seen.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

Story is about originality, not duplication

I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.

We are all God's animated cartoons.