You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.

For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right, go straight ahead.