When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.