I wanted to live, but saw clearly that I was not living - but rather wrestling with the shadow of death. There was no one to give me life, and I was not able to take it.

How, then, does an order of causes which is certain to the foreknowledge of God necessitate that there should be nothing which is dependent on our wills, when our wills themselves have a very important place in the order of causes?

When then things to come are said to be seen, it is not themselves which as yet are not (that is, which are to be), but their causes perchance or signs are seen, which already are.

Therefore we are by no means compelled, either, retaining the prescience of God, to take away the freedom of the will, or, retaining the freedom of the will, to deny that He is prescient of future things, which is impious. But we embrace both. We faithfully and sincerely confess both. The former, that we may believe well; the latter, that we may live well.

Trust God that you are where you are meant to be.

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.

The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

I go with the most interesting thing that comes my way,I don't expect it to come from India to tell you the truth, but if it did, fine by me.

Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift .

If you want to make God laugh, tell him-her your plan

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.