Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life.

We are always looking for beauty and forget that it is residing inside of our own hearts.

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed.

Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.

Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.

I moved into an all-electric house. I forgot and left the porch light on all day. When I got home the front door wouldn't open.