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

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

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

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.

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

I wasn't ready for goodbye, not now, not yet. Stay with me tonight, please don't go just yet.

If life gets you down.Just try digging a deeper hole.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

We have a president [Barack Obama] that can't sit them [companies] around a table and get them to approve something.

Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby.

I learned English from American pros. That's why I speak so bad. I call it PGA English.

Life's had to break you down so you could be rebuilt

I think he lives in such a rarified bubble these days, he doesn't understand what reality is any more.

Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation.