Every successful work of God must have opposition.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes.

God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Find peace in where and what you are.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

Your immediate experience is Tantric Zen. How aware are you of your immediate experience? - Probably not that aware.

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own.

Optimism is a cure for many things.

Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. You get bored. Passion is this up and down; it's like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me.

There are some things we will always own in common. No one will ever homestead an ocean.