What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.

We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.

It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.

I became addicted to the guilt. The strange thrill of doing something so morbid, so off-color, and so completely wrong.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

A great passion has no partner.

True beauty consists of purity of heart.

Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life.

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

The huge problems we deal with every day are actually really small. We’re so focused on what bothers us that we don’t even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective.