Every person is unique.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.

Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up!

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?

The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.