God’s purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.

God values Christian character, which shines in positive, outward conduct. Fashion your heart after Jesus.

Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.

It’s not what you get, but what you give that is God’s true measure of a life.

God’s ways and His will come in His own perfect time.

Can I have my ear back?" He asked irritably.She blinked."Mother, can you tell this creature here to loosen her hold?

Next time someone tells you to smile for the camera, & you don’t feel like it—say no, thanks. Don’t fake your way into a happy-seeming life. Open vulnerable honesty is true positivity.

...some of the miracles do locally what God has already done universally: others do locally what He has not yet done, but will do.

What you can't get is just what suits you.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to “get into their world.

As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion.

We have a choice of focusing on our problems or focusing on God, who holds the solution.