We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

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.

A people without children would face a hopeless future

All of Christ's commands are invitations and all of His invitations are commands.

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.