If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

those who have loved are those that have found God

You are the love, the lover, and the beloved.

Is that-am I looking at her beaver?"Mid-swig, I choke on the mouthful of beer, sputtering and coughing. After I recover, I ask jokingly, "'Beaver'? Are you Canadian or something?

You are fifty different kinds of twisted.""Only fifty? Val, you wound me.

Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.

We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.