I must look at the 'nature' of God, not the 'nature' of the challenge. For the former means everything and the latter means nothing.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

The royal pursuit is reverence of God.

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels himself.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.