Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.

See, some people politely encourage their tone-deaf friends to sing. Some people even convince them to go on live television and audition for national competitions. But me? I am not that friend.

They’d scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms—not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.

The mind, when it reaches its limits, must make a judgment and choose its conclusions. This is where suicide and the reply stand.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

God's Love is UNCONDITIONAL, which means that it has absolutely nothing to do with us. Thankfully, God doesn't love us for who we are, but because of WHO HE IS.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.