Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.

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.

... a man sitting still is alone, often, with the memory of all he doesn't have. And what he does have can look very much like nothing.

The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting.  Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great.

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

What's the name of the birth defect you have, trampled by a horse during the 2nd trimester?

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.