It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

Preaching that costs nothing accomplishes nothing.

If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there.

Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chatting about," said Jace. It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.

If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.

It's fun because I really do love meeting new people. Comedy can be so different from show to show and from writer to writer and actor to actor. People don't set out to make a bad show.

Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.

Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.