Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

To be wise, know yourself.

Don't let someone keep putting out the flame God keeps re-lighting, we all have a purpose. As a wing to a bird. As wind that goes the destiny over the sea.

You can't change destinies already written, that only happens in fairy tales.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

I didn’t want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

I went to sleep dreaming of Malawi, and all the things made possible when your dreams are powered by your heart.