The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.

New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.

Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and holy. But we may be missing the fact that it is here, where we happen to be at this moment and not in another place or another time, that we may learn to love Him - here where it seems He is not at work, where He seems obscure or frightening, where He is not doing what we expected Him to do, where He is most absent. Here and nowhere else is the appointed place. If faith does not got to work here, it will not work at all.