The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

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.

A society is driven by “social fear” always produces the seeds of doubt and unhappiness.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.

Let the revolution begin.

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far but faith has no limits.

I'm easy to please and hard to satisfy.

The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

Be black, shine, aim high.