It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

To be so lonelyyou told yourself you liked to be this way& almost believed it was true.

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.

I do have a favorite Zeppelin song, Larry, Black Dog.

I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.

...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root of our perseverance.