The Savior knows what it's like to die of cancer.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

Although we look at ourself as One, in the real world we always experience ourself as TWO.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

I've never credited myself with a professional life. But, basically, it has been that.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

Thankfully, God's plans also happen to be much better than my own.

When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything. Fear can be so debilitating. Every day I'm faced with difficult decisions, but losing the fear helps me make the right choices.

Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.