Each day I see all about me the fruits of commandment-keeping.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

The idea being that if I was so incredibly small, then I could do almost anything, because what impact would I have, really? What damage could be done, being so puny in the big scheme?

Don't live in the dreams, don't fly high, don't keep the expectations that cause your death before the death.

The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him.

Sometimes in life you just have to take a leap of faith.

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn’t a question of if; it’s a question of when.

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

You cannot be known Better than I know you.

The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.