Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.

Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.