I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn't matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Please God … lead me to that kind of love. Until then, help me to know that You are enough.

Happiness is not a goal. It's a by-product.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

"And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

Most people now are looking for a better place, which means that a lot of them will end up in a worse one. I think this is what Nathan learned from his time in the army and the war. He saw a lot of places, and he came home. I think he gave up the idea that there is a better place somewhere else. There is no "better place" than this, not in this world. And it is by the place we've got, and our love for it and our keeping of it, that this world is joined to Heaven.

But in his dream he knew their way was prepared, and in their time they would rise up joyful.

Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.