Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

Sure, fear can protect us from danger—but most of the time it just keeps us from life’s great adventures.

I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

I'm still tap dancing. I'm still going.

Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships.