I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human

It's not so much what happens to us, as what happens in us that counts.

Our theology must become biography.

There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

Learning patience takes a lot of patience!

It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.

Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

All of our theology must eventually become biography.

If a man has lost everything he has but his dreams, it means that he has still everything!

Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions.

The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!

If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

If you think big, then it's going to be big.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

I am malicious because I am miserable