"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God."

"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."