God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called. In the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows

The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!