Celebration is best done in the company of others who can rejoice with us over God's goodness.

The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.

The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.

God is enough like us to understand our problems and enough above us to be able to solve them.

Since the success of believers is tied to our knowledge of and obedience to God's Word, the memorizing of portions of the Bible is advisable.

Every demonstration of God's faithfulness to us is an opportunity for us to testify of Him to others.

Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.

Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

Dreaming is good but implementation is success

Death is the end of the poetry we call life.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!

If you have to release bad news to the public, it would help if you are not ugly.

I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.