A seed only begins to manifest its greatest potential the day it is buried in dirt.

The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.

Behind your darkest fears lie your brightest rewards.

Spiritual highs help you overcome emotional lows.

The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven.

Every cross, to a child of God, is like Paul's cross wind, which, though it broke the ship, it brought Paul to shore upon the broken pieces.

In heaven we will need no repentance, because we will have no sin. We will not need faith, because we will see God face to face. But love to God will abide forever. Love never fails (1 Corinthians 13:8).

We are not Human Beings experiencing spiritual lives, we are spiritual beings experiencing human lives.

You are not your circumstances, you are your possibilities

Because so many times what keeps us in that valley of depression, what keeps us in that valley of frustration, is our response to a moment and not recognizing that it is exactly that. It's a moment. It's one scene of your movie. And what makes a great movie are scenes that are put together of great conflict.

The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of the claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transiencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.

Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.