Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

You have to work harder to achieve your goals

Does love survive? Yes, I thought, somewhere in some place it is saved and made sacred.

What do you think the Order is going to do?" he asks. "Help us open a door to Hell, if we're lucky, " I reply. Lucky. Ha ha. The irony.

The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.

I wanna smoke pot, but I can't, cause I'm too paranoid.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.

This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.