Decide that you're going to love the people around you, even those you don't particularly like - or perhaps especially those you don't like.

Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages.

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

You cannot be spiritually free and financially bound.

My greatest fear in life is standing before the Lord and hearing Him say, ‘I had so much more for you, but you held on too tightly.’

If you'll do now what other people won't, you'll do later what other people can't.

It is amazing to me that we allow so many people with so little proven character to set our national policy on issues that will ultimately be paid for by the rest of us.

When you don't know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is.

Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility.

Always be ready to give a good testimony for the Lord, but remember that the best testimony a Christian can have is a love for others and good work habits.

How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.

Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?

Emotion triggers action, good or otherwise

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.

Something deep within me connected with hard work, nature and simplicity.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.