Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

There is explosive power in virtue.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.