“The ministry of bearing with one another is more than simply tolerating difficult people. It is also learning to hear God speak through them.”

“If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.”

“When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.”

“Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.”

“If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.”

“We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.”

“You cannot be afraid of the unknown. In every moment and with every step you take, the unknown becomes the known.”

“Innovations are the magnificent elevators of a transformational life.”

“Thinking about the future is the worst way of thinking about the future. Working on your future is the best way of thinking about your future.”

“The dripping blood our only drink,The bloody flesh our only food:In spite of which we like to thinkThat we are sound, substantial flesh and blood--Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.”

“...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.”

“Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.”

“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.”

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end...”