You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.
Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
To love is to be vulnerable.
If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best
There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.
Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.
