The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.

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.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.

The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all. It is we who are in danger.

What one man can think, another man can do.

I'm 18 so I'm still young and I'm still learning. But I mean, relationships in general are hard.

A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there is no simple notion of its being "for" some function.

I would suggest that gluten tends to be tied to carbs. And I try to balance my carbs and my proteins and my fats.

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.