Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.

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.

It seems there's nothing so good or pure it cant be taken without a moment's notice. And then in the end, it all gets taken anyway.

I used to think of them as prolegomena for a book

I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.

For all of us who listen, in the stillness of our hearts, God enlightens us and offers to lead the way.

Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself.

God wants His people well, but it is up to us to make the decision to walk in health.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.