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

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?

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.

It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.

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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.

Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

Violence among boys is so valorized and so encouraged that you have to do things different in violence prevention with boys than with girls.

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.

Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?