“Imbalanced systems,whether internal or external, will tend to polarize.”

“I have met people who have lost all hope. Repentance, they feel, is beyond their reach and forgiveness outside their grasp. Such do not understand the cleansing power of the Atonement. Or, if they do understand, they have not internalized the meaning of Jesus Christ’s suffering in Gethsemane and on the cross. For any of us to give up hope for the purifying of our lives is to disavow the depth, power, and extent of His suffering in our behalf.”

“You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.”

“But even in hell there are moments when the light reaches you.”

“And long after the history of all the big things that make the front pages are forgotten, what God has done through you and a few people will be history.”

“Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.”

“The life of a man is like a ball in the river, the Buddhist texts state - no matter what our will wants or desires, we are swept along by an invisible current that finally delivers us to the limitless expanse of the black sea. This image rather appeals to me. It suggests there are times when we float lightly along life's surface, bobbing from one languid, long pool to another. But then, when we least expect it, we turn a river bend and find ourselves plummeting over a thundering waterfall into the churning abyss below. This I have experienced. And more.”