Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies.

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

You're more powerful when talking from your soul.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.

It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.