The quickest way to forget about your pain is to help someone who hurts more.

Ordinary faithfulness leads to extraordinary impact.

Never let a few people that don't get you, shape you, into their limited knowledge of what you can become.

Sometimes your dream has to die so God's dream can come alive in you.

Never grow weary in the fight to rescue the most forgotten.

The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor.

Be so positive and optimistic that people give up trying to contain you.

Stay optimistic to the point where people question your sanity.

You can tell a lot about a person by what they let roll off their back.

Wanting to quit is a sign of success because it means you have something to quit; but don't quit.

Let us be kind and pay our deepest gratitude to those angels who fill our life with joy, beauty, and magic.

I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.

If he didn't have Ronnie already in his arms he'd have assumed she'd just opened the door...and aged a few years. Wow, he thought in surprise, she's going to be hot when we hit fifty.

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.