Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.

The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.

...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

Blunt turned to the man in question with a helpless grin, "You have always proven yourself a mystery to me, good fellow!"Falconer lifted one corner of his mouth, "Then I have succeeded, Blunt.

Whatever it is that you're afraid of, I'll stand between you and it my whole life.

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina

I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.

The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities.