Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

Focus on the future and the outcomes you want, not your present setbacks or failures.

THEY are afraid of nothing, ' I grumbled, watching their approach through the window. 'Together, they would brave Satan and all his legions.

A good book is a true friend who never betrays.

Those who do scientific or medical studies and have conclusions are reflecting the results preferred by those who pay them.

Grief never mended no broken bones.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

He who believes himself to be far advanced in the spiritual life has not even made a good beginning.

It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.