To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'

The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections. . . . Every time we find our hearts are troubled, that we are not rejoicing in God, a resurrection must follow; a resurrection out of the night of troubled thought into the gladness of the truth.

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.