It takes only an apostrophe to make the word impossible possible according to the word itself

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Literature is news that stays news.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

Man confesses God forgives

Behind every successful man, there isn't just a woman but a prayerful and hard working woman.If not every married man would be successful

The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83

A broken heart is not a broken glass

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

A single prayer can alter your destiny if you have enough faith to believe. If this can be true, pray daily prayers for that someone, too.

If you hesitate to learn from others, you will never learn anything new.

In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of synods, which are often hasty and injudicious

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

I don't feel like taking anybody's money.

Let us go over, and sit in the shade of the trees.