We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

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 flower that refuses to bloom robs the world of its beauty.

She would never let anyone interfere with her right to use her mind.

Writers cleave together like a demonic AA group - we are singularly able to dance with each other's devils...

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.