"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

"Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose."

"Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God."

"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."

"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."