Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

If only youcould see me as the Devil does: palatable & raw

You will only become significant in life, by solving the unique set of problems only you and your mission are meant to solve.

I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach.

My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.