I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

Headstrong is just a word, Katie - a word others call you when you don't do what they want.

The love and hope that we are born with is what keeps us relentlessly moving toward joy. We get the most happiness from the simplicity of being devoid of wants and needs.

We are living in the falsehood due to the erroneous teachings of the society, community and the bordered nations.

I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.

My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.

Good clothes open all doors.