Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

The whole duty of humanity, from a Christian perspective is: 'To know God and to show God.'

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.

I'd been told that he had been created-literally created-just for me,as my "perfect other half." Let me tell you-if Dylan was my perfect other half, then i needed to give my first half a seriouis look-see.

Cats are like Baptists. You know they raise hell, but you can never catch them at it.

I have an idea. It’s risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out.” Iggy raised his head. “Sounds like my kind of idea.