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

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

"Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come."

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

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

"If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it."