The trouble with many Christians is that they try to have one foot in the world and the other in the temple. In other words, church and good behavior is reserved for Sunday and the rest of the week we can indulge ourselves.


The paradox of the divine tutorial is that suffering will come to us if we are serious and that our afflictions become a form of learning, and that our learning is exactly that which wrenches our hearts and is the most difficult for us to do. This is why sometimes the best people have the worst things happen to them.


The true citizenship for the disciple of peace lies in another world; we merely have a temporary passport to this one.


It is often not the noble and great, the talented and gifted, the famous and notorious, who fight the greatest battles of life, but the quiet ones who, according to the world’s ways, never achieve anything noteworthy.


Or task is not to make a favorable impression on the world, but a favorable impact on ourselves.


It is the person who works silently in the background, unnoticed and unheralded, who lives his life with purpose and strain and dies his death in ignominy and pain in some obscure place, who is the true hero of life.


Do you entirely fathom the insight that of all the billions of people who have lived on this planet and who will live on this planet, you are unique. There has never been one exactly like you here before, and after you leave, there will never be another exactly like you here again. Individuality is an awesome thing. But, don’t be puffed up about it; be thankful for it.


If we are lucky we will leave only a legacy of excerpts on our tenure here, but no lengthy books will be written and no memorable speeches or accolades given.


The legacy we leave of our life, whether quotable or not, whether memorable or not, do not represent the frequency or the power with which we have felt or spoken. Thus are the greatest aspects of our lives held in secret.


The one thing I want my children to remember about me is that I loved them. And that they learned to love me!


Not remembrance of my mistakes and failings, but remembrance of my struggles and purpose – that is what I want to be remembered for.