The Chinese join two characters to form a single pictograph for busyness: heart and killing. This is stunningly incisive. The heart is the place the busy life exacts its steepest toll.

Mark Buchanan in The Rest of God

If ever I reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third -- the greatest wonder of all -- to find myself there.

John Newton

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers