It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.

...when I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

I think sometimes we think faith is about having all the answers. It isn't. But it's the thing that keeps you steady and in peace in the midst of storms.

How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death?

Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.

It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.

Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.

Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times

... A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter, " she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth

It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.

Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras

The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.

I regret nothing and fear less.

I know about the rules but this should not be a red card for the keeper. Arsenal was punished enough with the penalty.

Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.