Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

One can have a wit, but not a witless

Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.

Everything seems simpler from a distance.

It should not be possible for Christians to be disillusioned. We should have no illusions in the first place. Our faith is in Jesus Christ alone.

When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.

No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

Today's thought for empowerment: If we would only love more all limitations in our lives would be gone!

eating is the sleeping of being awake.

What you believe in, is the life you decide.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.