Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.

The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!”

When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.

When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and God’s idea of God is Christ

There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it

Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Perestroika is nothing but a spectacle organized from above.

The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem.

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.

Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.