Quotes from Steven James

Over the years, I've found that anger is necessary, but it must reach an equilibrium: You need just enough but never too much. If you don't let it in, you become hollow; but if you let it take over, you become its slave.

If you don't find forgiveness, you'll never end up with peace,

The only people who aren't hypocrites are those whose morals are so twisted, whose consciences are so seared, that they don't believe in any ideals higher than those they actually live out.

opening lines of Ecclesiastes: "'Meaningless! Meaningless!' says the Teacher. 'Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.

What would it look like to live in awe of every moment? To really, really see the terrible splendor, the delicate wonder of life?

Think of a caterpillar entering a cocoon. Once he does so, one of two things will happen: He will either transform into a butterfly, or he will die. But no matter what else happens, he will never climb out of the cocoon as a caterpillar. So it is with your protagonist.

joy is evidence of God.

anything you do in the dark. In other words, it's any act that you try to hide from others. So, what kind of person are you when the shades are drawn? That's really the question. "Integrity," as Dr. Werjonic used to say, "has no private life." But, of course, no one has complete integrity because everyone has things to hide. All of us act differently when no one is watching.

Life is for living, for moving on, for letting the past lie behind us.

Only through faith in the grace of God, only through mercy at the hand of God, only through hope in the Son of God.

Heaven is where love comes out ahead.

Without hope, the only thing that keeps you going is either momentum or fear.