What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

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.

It is a fact of life that when you are small, people expect little things from you. But when you've done a great thing, people are amazed.

My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

Enlightenment gives profound joy of the heart and a great love for the fellow beings.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision.

Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.

Based on what I know of the case, Burke Ramsey was not the killer. I absolutely do not believe that Burke Ramsey had anything to do with his sister's murder.

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.