Paul Tournier on Prayer

"Prayer constantly enlarges our horizon and our person. It draws us out of the narrow limits within which our habits, our past, and our whole personage confine us."

Ruysbroeck on Love

"Love cannot be inactive; its life is a ceaseless effort to know, to feel, and to realize the boundless treasure hidden within its depths. This is its insatiable desire."

G.K. Chesterton on Thankfulness

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

Tom Bodett on Obsession

"Obsession must wear itself thin before you can see through it."

Madeleine L'Engle on Stories and Faith

"It is not easy for me to be a Christian, to believe 24 hours a day all that I want to believe. I stray, and then my stories pull me back if I listen to them carefully. I have often been asked if my Christianity affects my stories, and surely it is the other way around; my stories affect my Christianity, restore me, shake me by the scruff of the neck, and pull this straying sinner into an awed faith."

Soren Kierkegaard on Dreams

"I divide my time in this way: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream."