The greatest human tragedy is to give up the search. Nothing is of greater importance than the life of our deep heart. To lose heart is to lose everything.

To lose hope has the same effect on our heart as it would be to stop breathing.

And so the great battle begins in earnest: the battle for your heart, the battle to find a life worth living, the battle not to lose heart as you find a life worth living.

Be men of courage; be strong. —1 CORINTHIANS 16:13 NIV

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality.

Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself. Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1961

My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Remain faithful to the light... Remember, the sun is shining behind the clouds.