Anybody who cannot learn to hear by feeling will not go very far in church.

I can promise you that the Spirit is a lot more anxious to help you than you are to be helped.

We have to find out the technique by which the spirit whispers to our hearts. We have to learn to hear it and to understand it and to know when we have it, and that sometimes takes a long time.

I do not know if hell is hot or cold, or what sort of place hell may be, but this I surely know, that if there is any hell at all it will be badly lit. And it will taste like a train.

How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

"Jem?" he said. "Is it you, James?" "Who else?" Jem's voice.

Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.

The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

Because we're old as sh*t. What do you want?

Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.