At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.

Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.

Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it.

God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.

Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live.

Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.

You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now.

If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right.

It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

Living forever is easy: be born again. (It's the relationship with your Saviour that's difficult)

No more will, no more soul, no more life!

You drive the car, you don't carry it.

The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.

I knew so little about money I used to sign my check, "Love, Rita."

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

So the first thing I learned about how to get superior performance is not to buy stocks that are near their lows, but to buy stocks that are coming out of broad bases and beginning to make new highs.

Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.