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.'

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

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