“It would be a far greater sin for you to drift along in a haze of moderation than to start a fire or two. Go fuck some things up.”

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

“Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.”

“What you hold in your heart is far greater than the things you hold in your hand.”

“Everything seemed suspended, in some kind of balance. Obviously someone would come along and fuck it up, because that's what other people did.”

“The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words "going along". We simply go along with the values and practices of society.”