Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.

In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.

Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

To set goals and pursue them, we must have a desire to dream of things some would think to be impossible.

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

This was the perfect day of his childhood. This the day to shape the days upon.

As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.

We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

Any democratic sentiment propels my politics.

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.