Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn’t walked on the ocean floor.
It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters. THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104.
The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.
Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.
Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.
The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.
The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it’s not.
The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.
It’s our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we’re nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it’s worth it.
If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?
It’s been said that every new beginning in some other beginning’s end.
I’ve wondered why the famous congregate with each other. Perhaps it’s to assure each other that they really are as important as they think they are.
To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.
Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.
Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It’s like sifting through gold to find the silt.
Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.
The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.
The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.
Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.
Life is not yours to take.