She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.

Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

I think most people, if I asked, would say, "Yes, of course I believe." But I think for a great many of them it doesn't really make much difference in terms of either what they do with their lives or with their own inner well-being. They believe because so did grandfather, and that's the same church they've been going to all these years.

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.