The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

The truth is humble, only those intelligent enough are able to seek and understand it.

The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.

At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?

Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.

For me, I've gotten better at that since I've gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.