We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.
You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. And the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. Your life is your life. Know it while you have it.
If I stop writing I am dead. And that’s the only way I’ll stop: dead.
I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have. Let’s drink more wine!
I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
The journey is what brings us happiness, not the destination.
Life is short, death is forever.
Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
Love is the strongest force in the world.
No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.
Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.