Faith is very important. That’s the reason I have it at the top of my pyramid. Then I have patience: Good things take time, and they should. You shouldn’t expect it to be any different. And you have to have faith that things are going to turn out as they should, as long as you do what you’re capable of doing to help things become reality. There’s too much time spent in just hoping things will happen a certain way. You’re imperfect in your efforts, but you’re not imperfect when you make your best effort. -John Wooden

He [CS Lewis] has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue, and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened me for me the wisdom of the ages. To this day, I get most of my soul food from centuries ago. I thank God for Lewis’ compelling demonstration of the obvious.

He demonstrated for me and convinced me that rigorous, precise, penetrating logic is not opposed to deep, soul-stirring feeling and vivid, lively, even playful, imagination. He was a romantic rationalist. -John Piper

When I was young, I admired clever people.  Now that I am old, I admire kind people. -Abraham Joshua Heschel