Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time.

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.

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

Inventors make something out of anything, but God makes something out of nothing. Elohim needs no raw materials.

Oh, most unhappy man, ' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.'My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world, ' said Gregory.

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

The American people in Congress have got to ask themselves a very simple question. Why are we the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right?

When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial.

I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.

For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform