“But what she also came to know was that someone somewhere would always see in any kind of difference, an excuse to be mean.”

“He has always been politely indifferent. But what's the Chinese word that means indifferent because you can't see any differences?”

“Greatness is obedience to what Jesus said, to the commission to go to the ends of the earth. It means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone, in the Name of Jesus Christ.”

“She was the kind of girl who climbed the tallest tree and cried to be let down, but she was also the kind of girl who would scramble and jump down on her own as soon as someone went in for the ladder.”

“Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope.”

“You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you.”