Dare to have it out with God, and ask Him to show you whether or not all is focused on Christ and His Glory.

Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.

When God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones.

Turn your soul's vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him.

When I'm in pain I want everyone I love on the island with me, sitting around the fire, getting drunk on coconut milk, banging out a plan.

The next time an unbeliever tells you they would believe in God "if He would just do a miracle, " you will know that is not true. Miracles do not convert people, God converts people.

My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.

I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.