Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

The cost of redemption cannot be overstated. The wonders of grace cannot be overemphasized. Christ took the hell He didn't deserve so we could have the heaven we don't deserve.

For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.

How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?

Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!

People who read too many books get quirky. We can't have too much eccentricity or it would bankrupt us. Market research depends on people behaving as if they were all alike.

Your smile shines like the morning sun.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.

Music is about your feelings.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

I don't think anybody ever saw anybody taking anything.