I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

The heaven I witnessed was so pure, love-filled, and magnificent that I did not want to return to earth.

No matter what the circumstances, we can be grateful that God fulfills His promises, that our faith is sufficient to sustain us, and that our eternal life is assured.

Faith allows us to confidently walk with God into a future filled with joy; one that can become an extraordinary and amazing adventure.

Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing."

Live a life of prayer, giving glory to God and continually listening for His guidance.

The more we love, the more love we have to offer. So it is with God's love for us. It is inexhaustible.

When you are doing God's will everything seems to happen without much effort or many obstacles.

Even when it feels as if we are being crushed by earthly troubles, we can remain joyful. If we keep our focus on God, our spirit cannot be trampled.

God promises to open the door when we knock, and to always welcome us back into his love, no matter how far we have strayed.

Live a life of gratitude, giving thanks in all circumstances.

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

You're changing, the world is changing, and your hopes and aspirations are regularly being updated. That's why I say this is a life long struggle - for everybody.

I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.

I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.