“People already have a desire for the things Heaven holds. We simply need to see that these things are not just some fancifuldream from a song but are a promised future reality.”

“Disturbing emotions arise from the things we see, things we hear and things we taste. But these things have no reality. No reality.”

“We tend to think of future inventions and discoveries, but in reality, these things already exist in the knowledge bank of the universe.”

“What He said He would do He always did, and the things we already see fulfilled in His Word simply remind us that what He said about the future will take place just as surely.”

“Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.”

“... he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing — or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need, but don't and can't get anyway.”