Don't let hard lessons harden your heart.

Tough times don't define you, they refine you. ‪

Most people like it when the pastor says, "family is priority." What they don't like very much is when the pastor actually chooses his own family as the priority over them.

Going to church is a beautiful act of humility. You are saying to the world, "I need God and His family.

Our weakness is an invitation to discover God's strength.

Even if you feel wronged, respond right.

When you judge others you reveal your inability to see them through God's eyes.

It's not the amount of Bible you read, it's the amount of Bible you believe.

Jesus is more interested in your heart than your ministry.

Your commitment to Jesus is a beautiful thing, but it will eventually dwindle down, unless you fully understand His commitment to you.

Jesus did not die just to save you from hell. He paid the price to give you all of heaven.

Worry is the destroyer of understanding.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. But I am more preoccupied with loving.

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do no explanation is necessary.

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.

At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the whole.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.

My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.