When we protect ourselves from what we fear, we also undermine our capacity for wonder.

The fact that your current station in life would seem to conspire against your usefulness to God is of no consequence.

I follow Jesus not because I don't have any doubts. I follow Jesus because in my doubt, He has always been tender with me.

I know much less about why God allows people to suffer than I know that He Himself is a suffering God.

I have no doubt that Taylor Swift will call one day after suffering writers block: "Alfa, I was told that you were the person to call." I gotcha girlfriend.

Hope is a great believe.

Life is strictly coded with happiness & sorrowWe can't make it work properly without one

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.

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