In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country

I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.

People with depression have something very valuable to teach us... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good.

An untested faith is an unreliable faith.

Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

The greatest weapon we have against evil is doing good in Jesus' name.

Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.

It is better to have someone that likes you and makes you happy than to have someone that loves you and makes you unhappy.

I need you to forgive me. And then perhaps I can begin to forgive myself. There is no one but you who can do that either.

I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.

Talent is nothing without persistence.

It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching — it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.

I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.