God dwells where we let God in.

Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone.

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.

When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest.

There is no need to accept the standards of the world at large.

Our mission on earth is to recognize the void - inside and outside of us - and fill it.

When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

With prayer, we can endure the pain.

Got a bout of doubt? Breathe.

I’ll give you one chance to run, but may your shoulder always whisper in your ear…“It’s best to watch out for men, like me.

She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn't open, when you write a boy letters and letters and he never loves you, not ‘til the day he dies. Not even then.

I never neglected my daughters - quite the opposite - but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.

It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.