What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.

...when I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap.

I think sometimes we think faith is about having all the answers. It isn't. But it's the thing that keeps you steady and in peace in the midst of storms.

How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death?

Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.

Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.

Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.

Percy grunted. ‘Probably something to do with that creep Octavian. Maybe he was so bad at telling the future that he broke Apollo’s powers.

What matters most is that we learn from living.

Conventional wisdom tells us not to dwell in the past. I believe, however, that we should hold hands with it.

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.

I have a daily message, 'Stimumail,' which I use to stimulate the mind and heart. I have the opportunity to touch over 60,000 people I have never met. I also use Twitter and Facebook.

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.