God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

If you have food on your table, clothes on your back, a roof on your head, and a dream in your heart, you have everything you need in life.

It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with.

Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.

If it’s change you need, relish the journey.

I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task.

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.

Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer

Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.