“Stars were falling deep in the darknessas prayers rose softly, petals at dawnAnd as I listened, your voice seemed so clearso calmly you were calling your godSomewhere the sun rose, o'er dunes in the desertsuch was the stillness, I ne'er felt beforeWas this the question, pulling, pulling, pulling youin your heart, in your soul, did you find rest there?Elsewhere a snowfall, the first in the wintercovered the ground as the bells filled the airYou in your robes sang, calling, calling, calling himin your heart, in your soul, did you find peace there?”

“Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.”

“Listen to your hearts, parents! You are the expert when it comes to knowing your child. I love the Scripture that says we are to let the peace of God rule in our hearts...In other words, peace in your heart is to be like an umpire calling the shots. When in doubt--DON'T!”

“Not called!' did you say?'Not heard the call,' I think you should say.Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.”

“You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up your day but not your heart. I liked that about you. I liked it enormously.”

“That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character. ”