There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
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?
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.