We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.

Conquer hate with love and evil with goodness.

When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts

You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

Her sunny side was always up.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.