If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
God left so many fingerprints at the scene of creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.