God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children.

The greatest obstruction to our joy in God is not a lack of time.

Because of the gospel -- the news about what Jesus did on the cross to save sinners -- mothers who make Christ their treasure can rejoice in their work as God works in them.

If we want to give grace to our children, then first we must be willing to receive it ourselves from God.

Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child.

When your eyes are fixed on the horizon of eternity, it affects your vision for motherhood.

The great problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her.

Trees are the soul collectors come to life.

Soaked in painmy suits remain standingwhen I take them off - hollow men beside the closet, a museum of days.

Crazy is such a misunderstood term. I like to think that I march to the beat of my own drummer.

The more corrupt the state the more laws.

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

Heavenly Father offers to you the greatest gift of all—eternal life—and the opportunity and infinite blessing of your own “happily ever after.”

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it.

America gave me the great glory of coming into people's homes every week and allowed me to last as long as I have.

I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.