Love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name.

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.

Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.

Love God, serve God; everything is in that.

Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.

Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.

O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord and let your service be according to reason.

Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

The work is plentiful but the labours are few.

The soul of a man is strong enough to withstand any adversity.

A platform without the Holy Spirit is like land without a spring. If we gain our Promise Land without Living Water, it will become desolate.

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

I think I know now why we are occupying Iraq. In case we have to sell America and move to a smaller country.

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

Our disappointment sits between us.

O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?