The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

Samantha reminds me of the difference between what is illusion and what is real. I am reminded whenever I forget that we choose our truth and whether to embrace it or not.

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.

It should be a very happy marriage - they are both so much in love with him.

The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.

Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

Learn the richness of solitude & quiet. That still small voice is yearning to be heard.