“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.”

It’s not what I don’t know that bothers me – it’s what I do know and don’t do!

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands.

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

When we listen to the Word of God, we obtain the courage and perseverance to offer the best of ourselves to others.

We must not forget that God created us equal.

One day you will look at those photos with much kinder eyes and say, ‘Dear God, I was a beautiful thing!

Let us pray in silence that the Lord will give us this grace.

God gave me this illness to remind me that I’m not Number One; He is.

Prayer gives time back to God. It makes us step away from the obsession of a life that is always lacking time and rediscover the peace of necessary things.

Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.