Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible.

There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.

You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.

Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior.

The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.

Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.

Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.

God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.

Bad wolf. Stop baiting the human.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

That's the only dog I know who can smell someone just thinking about food.

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.

I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.

I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.