Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

Lies breed distrust, and distrust brings conflict.

Our first stage of existence is truly honored by the magnificent view of our destination.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

We must begin to understand that the gospel deconstructs a man before it reconstructs him. First it teaches him he is entitled to nothing, and then it give him everything.

I do care about not 99 percent or 95 percent. I care about the very rich and the very poor. I care about 100 percent of America.