We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

Shouldn’t we respect that fewer women want to go into some areas of study than other areas of study?

Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.

Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

If you want to change the world, be that change.

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.