A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.

Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

God is the Lord of lords.

Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.

If you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of other people.

These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time.

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.