Patience is a balloon, the longer you have it, the more it inflates to burst

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Literature is news that stays news.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

Man confesses God forgives

Behind every successful man, there isn't just a woman but a prayerful and hard working woman.If not every married man would be successful

The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83

A broken heart is not a broken glass

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

If you wish to good ways, study the word of God.

Jeremias, my soul mate, I will forever love you.

We hurt people, when we give ourselves more value than others.

But I shall not know any better then than I know now that he is God’s Almighty Son, that he is our Savior and Redeemer, and that salvation comes in and through his atoning blood and in no other way.

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

Revenge never does anyone any good. Killing the person you hate will never ease the pain. Always look forward! Follow the path of light!

We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.