If the church is to impress the world with the deathless hope of the everlasting Gospel, she must be animated by that hope herself.

I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him?

It is a great thing to be a really good forgiver.

I don’t wish for more time. I wish for more courage to live freely right now.

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness, ' as he would call it.

Heaven will smile on us again.

I get that we can't be together. And it's not like I'm so weak-willed that the simple act of saying hello to me will cause me to jump your bones in the hall.

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

You need to open up your soul and have a weep-a-thon.

I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

My priorities are my friends and my family.

The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can't neither guess the future, neither change the past.