When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

When all fears of a possible worse thing are passed, there is in some sense peace and even glory.

Mars hates those who delay; but if you fear the weight of arms, now then go forth unarmed

I doubt if, after all, I'll ever write anything again worth putting in print.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

The Holy Spirit, so central to New Testament writings as diverse as those of Paul, John, and the author of Acts, inhabits the message and empowers the speaker, so that the proclamation of God's act in Christ is the new occasion of creation, issuing from the Trinitarian power of the originating Word itself.

Resolve is not incompatible with Christian humility.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'