There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.

Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.

God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

the hope of a better future belongs to us!

One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.

You are a perfect woman, a magical blend of beauty, intelligence, and spirit. Without you, my life is nothing.

Law and love are the same - romantic in concept but the actual practice can give you a yeast infection.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.

Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every drooping slice of chrome, has a story behind it.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.