Sorrow ages you prematurely. When you're in emotional debt, you're pessimistic about the future and, even in your green years, long to return to the past to remedy the shortfalls of love and opportunity you suffered.

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.

I came to the realization that I'm a child of God, and that's my identity. If this all goes tomorrow, I don't have the proverbial rug under me that can be pulled out. I'm taken care of, and there's someone who loves me.

Honest to God, I do all the research on these books myself.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.