“Our parents teach us the very first things we learn. They teach us about hearts.”

“The weaknesses, failures, and sins of our family are the places where we learn that we need grace too. It is there, in those dark mercies, that God teaches us to be humbly dependent. It is there that He draws near to us and sweetly reveals His grace. Paul's suffering teaches us to reinterpret our thorn. Instead of seeing it as a curse, we are to see it as the very thing that keeps us "pinned close to the Lord.”

“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”

“If we listen and observe carefully the dying can teach us important things that we need to learn in preparing for the end of our own life's journey.”

“Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.”

“The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone.”