A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.

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.

Stop telling God what you want to have, He is going to use what you have left to give you what you need.

I am not interested in wishing hard and having the Universe provide all I need without any work on my part.

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures.

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

It was a life I didn’t want to leave behind.It was a life I didn’t want to forget.

The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face of it is quite beautiful, interesting, and textured.