“There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.”

Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.

I think more ridiculous is a man or woman afraid of the light.

Don’t ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.

It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

There can be no mercy without truth.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it’s a choice.

The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.

He died to make you holy. You are not your own.

And when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.

God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.

Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.

God does business with those who mean business.

Satan wants to cripple me and then blame me for limping.

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.

Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now?

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.

People, when they come up to me, are like, “Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?” And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

So I suppose the answer is I see myself in all my characters, in their best moments and in their worst.

The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.