“Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus" (1 Thess. 5:18).”

“Commit your work to the Lord, and then your plans will succeed. (Proverbs 16:3).”

“Absent in body but present in spirit.”

“Yet man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward.”

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?”

“Here am I send me.”

“There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sp...”

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are...”

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”