Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose? Sir John Templeton.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

Some dreams are meant to be handed over to God. To be remolded and redirected in keeping with his will. Sometimes our plans do not fit with the plans of God.

I know that this world holds suffering— and hardship— and sometimes despair. But our God has a gift— a hope and a future for each of us. If only we accept the manner in which it comes: the surrender of our will to His— in faith and obedience.

Only God knows the plan he has for you. We must continue to pray for his will to be done. He has promised to answer, and he keeps his promises. So answer he will—in his own time and way. Whatever your future holds, this I know. He will not desert you. Your duty, my dear, is to seek his will and to walk in his way.

Thank you, Lord, I prayed, for turning something bad into something good.

Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.

I grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to college. But I was taught that even though there was nothing I could do about what was behind me, I could change everything about what was in front of me. My working poor parents told me that I could do better.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.