“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”

God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.

Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

You can make anything by writing.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

Breakups have a way of shaking us awake and helping us see what we really want vs. what we are willing to settle for.

You are only as broken as you allow yourself to be.

One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.

Let go of the hands that don’t want to hold yours.

Their compliments should not define you and nor should their criticism break you.

There’s no point in being complete on the outside when you’re broken in the inside.