We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

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.

Haunted by demons of the past, hounded by demons not yet met, the nevermore and evermore left her little peace.” ~A Tale of Two Women

What we decide to do in the face of adversity is perhaps the truest measure of character.

You have exactly three seconds to get out of here before I do everything I’ve been thinking about since the first day I saw you. You decide. Now.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old seek what they sought.

the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.

Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.

Nothing is more difficult than to make a profit.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.