The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

When there is no tension between the inner beingness and that which is being expressed, there is grace.

If I knew where poems came from, I'd go there.

You have a part-time job and that's better to no job at all

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

I think I'm nervous to sign on to any job.

Instagramming photos of food isn't sexy.

I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.