Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

Wishful thinking doesn't change reality.

But it's the way we have used the intellect that has made the mess, not the intellect per se.

You simply need to trust, take each next step by faith. You will know what is right when the time comes.

Understanding comes from within, from knowing and trusting in the Lord.

Don't be fooled. Charlie remembers things exactly the way he wants to remember them. I suppose we all do...And then we spend the rest of our lives basing the way we think about our families on what we THOUGHT happened--instead of what really did.

The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work.

I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.