In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

if lying would be a crime, we would all be in jail right now

Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

Having a delivery covered by Medicare just isn't going to fly. It's too risky for a woman to put a baby down and not remember where she left it.

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.

Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.

I can't remember, because I never knew.

I know that I'm dealing with some kind of wound through my music.

Very little happens in my books.

Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.