“Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.”

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.

Things never happen the same way twice.

I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

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.

I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

People have said, ‘You don’t need to do any more biopics. You don’t need to play any more real people.’ I don’t agree with that.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.

In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.