A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.

Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.

If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you'll be delighted.

God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.

If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.

Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.

If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

He knows when we go into the storm, He watches over us in the storm, and He can bring us out of the storm when His purposes have been fulfilled.

The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us.

The way we behave toward people indicates what we really believe about God.

The greatest judgment God can send on His people is letting them have their own way.

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

We are Spirit Beings walking around in fleshly attire.

People believed what made them comfortable. What fit with their preconceptions of how the world worked.

People who personify excellence are people who invoke the same in others.

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.