Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.

Books and spiritual blessings are the greatest soul food

He kept pushing her, expecting for her to break. Fearing it. But he was the one who splintered apart. He was the one who broke.

A #GIRLBOSS is someone who's in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it.

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

I think death is a big deal, obviously.

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

For me my passion is music. I just can't let it go!

That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.