Today is older than tomorrow, that is the power of the present

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Literature is news that stays news.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

Man confesses God forgives

Behind every successful man, there isn't just a woman but a prayerful and hard working woman.If not every married man would be successful

The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83

A broken heart is not a broken glass

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

Grace is a free gift from God.

In a lot of ways, living with Charlie was like having my own place, and I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

I would like for people to appreciate the album musically whether they knew how it was made or not.

The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God.

Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.

Try to understand long before you move to judgment.

It’s harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition.