Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.

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.

Even when we win, we lose, Lyss thought.

Life is a lie. We should fear it more than death. We live fearful of dying, terrified of the unknown … when, really, every truth is in our last breath.

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

In life, when you have a partner–someone you can rely on and trust with everything that you are–there isn’t anything you can’t accomplish. I will always be there for you, if you let me.

The church the Bible described is exciting and adventurous and wrought with sacrifice. It cost believers everything, and they still came.

You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.

Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.