Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

I think God eventually changed my heart simply because I clung to my desire for Him, even though I wasn't sure how to follow through on that desire.

Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart.

Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles.

When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness.

Sincere doubts, handled properly, can become a gift.

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?

Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.

If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.

Elsie eyed him puzzledly, and then offered, "Would you like to see my plate?

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

Hope, like faith, is a principle of action. It motivates and inspires. We do not sit in our armchairs and hope for hope; we get up and go to work.

I'm not interested to change about the government. I'm interested to change the conditions for the people. So, yes, I talk a lot. But I think this is the only way for Italy in this moment.

You're going to set us all on fire, you homicidal feral fruitcake.

We look at each one [project] and consider the context - what it is and what it can be - beyond the strictly functional concerns.

Every day I searched for the star That never was in the sky Now I see that star is on the earth