It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.

The realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could.

Man must conquer is own mountain.

There is compensation in all things.

I'm alright with who I am and I don't feel that I need to be better.

Some things were never meant to be recycled.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

Mrs. Rimas cried at the mention of the wafer and the traditional Christmas blessing. "God grant that we are all together again next year.

One and one make 2. But if you bring 1 and 1 close together they make 11.

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.