All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart

The simplest way of becoming his light is by being kind and loving, thoughtful, and sincere with others: 'By this they will know that you are his disciples.'

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.

Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.