What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

It is well with my soul.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

I like to be as free as possible at all times.

Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .

Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing.