Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

Preaching that costs nothing accomplishes nothing.

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there.

I’ve had enough of this destiny bullshit, OK?

Say you’re beautiful, ” I whispered, stroking her. “I’m beautiful.” “Good, ” I murmured, kissing her jaw then moving south. “Say it again.

You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your illiteracy.

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

There's a lot of negativity in the world. I'm trying to be positive.

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn't sustain us.

Outward appearances mean everything.