“Why is it that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity? It is because at the cross Jesus purchased our redemption and provided a righteousness which we could not ourselves earn.”

“Happiness isn't getting all that you want. It's enjoying all that you have.”

“¡YO DECLARO que tendré fe en vez de tener miedo! Meditaré en lo que es positivo y bueno de mi situación, y usaré mi energía no para preocuparme, sino para creer.”

“It is a tragic fact that the vast majority of Christians today are living a sub-normal Christian life.”

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can't. If a thing is free to be good it's also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata -of creatures that worked like machines- would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they've got to be free. Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. (...) If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will -that is, for making a real world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings- then we may take it it is worth paying.”

“We must understand what the word believe implies. It means “commit” and “surrender.”

“The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.”

“To know, but to be as though not knowing, is the height of wisdom.”

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”

“I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.”

“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”

“You have been “self-pitying” for long years now and things don’t seem to improve. Just try a few days of good self-esteeming” and you’ll see things taking a better shape!”

“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”