You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in sensory images to that place which is beyond images. Now she was kything Calvin, not red hair, or freckles, or eager blue eyes, or the glowing smile; nor was she hearing the deep voice with the occasional treble cracking; not any of this, but - Calvin. She was with Calvin, kything with every atom of her being, returning to him all the fortitude and endurance and hope which he had given her.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.