Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea.

Be proactive not reactive, for an apparently insignificant issue ignored today can spawn tomorrow's catastrophe.

One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.

Stress is like fire: When controlled and used for a purpose, it serves us well. Left unbridled, it can consume us.

Nothing does so much to help those who suffer as to know that somebody cares.

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.

Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.

I don't think divestiture is too high a price to pay to be the president of the United States of America.

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.