The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

It is impossible for a star to shine and not get noticed, even in the dark.

To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively

Reading was very important

The world is alive, and just as we humans draw energy from connection with other human beings, so we do too from this world.

The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age.

Sometimes that´s all you need…, to know it´s not broken. To know you’re still whole and that you’ll heal.

The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.

Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.