He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologians to swim in without ever touching the bottom St. Jerome

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

If you read a map with directions to get somewhere but you don't follow it, you shouldn't get mad at God when you become spiritually lost. The Bible is a love letter from God. But if you don't read it and believe it, you may wonder why you'll walk through life feeling unloved.

The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope.

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.

A ship that sails without a compass will get lost at sea.

My friend, God wants to throw a beam of light on your path today.

The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.