A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.

When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.

Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God.

Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.

No circumstance, person, or difficulty can stop the plans and the promises of God.

If you are a Christian, your search for approval should be over.

When our lives are filled with peace, faith and joy, people will want to know what we have.

Don't wait until the moment of crisis. Plan ahead, hide God's Word in your heart, and pray in advance for victory, holiness, and a life pleasing to God.

Everyone we meet is a hero waiting to happen. When Jesus saw people, He envisioned their potential. No respecter of persons, He associated with people from all walks of life.

Heaven is not a figment of imagination. It is not a feeling or an emotion. It is not the "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere." It is a prepared place for a prepared people.

God loves you as though you are the only person in the world, and He loves everyone the way He loves you.

Some people live a lifetime every second, others only a second in a life time with little happiness to find. Learn to seize each and every second and make your life divine!

Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring.

Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Everybody has a colon. Everyone over 50 needs to get their colon checked.

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

When I read books it's to escape. It's so I don't have to talk to people.

It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.