So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.

Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.

People in oppressive political situations are so afraid to give voice to their convictions that they lose confidence in the very category of truth and in the power of speech to bring clarity and liberation.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

I am well in body though considerably rumpled up in spirit.

I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.

Fear is the original sin," suddenly said a still, small voice away back—back—back of Valancy's consciousness. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something." Valancy stood up. She was still in the clutches of fear, but her soul was her own again. She would not be false to that inner voice.

But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take what ever God sends.

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.