The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God.

Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God is the god of his idolatry.

Nothing in this world is so marvelous as the transformation that a soul undergoes when the light of faith descends upon the light of reason.

Be aware of anxiety. Next to sin, thee is nothing that so troubles the mind, stains the heart, distresses the soul, and confuses the judgment.

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

I find pain, rather beautiful. It has a chaotic way of shaking up Everything we once ignored, To empower us to move past Anything that doesn't serve the best of us anymore.

Life follows a rhythm and we hold the drum.

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you'd see you are a totally determined being.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.