I thought Christians were walking idiots.

I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.

The Christian faith is faith in Christ. Its value or worth is not in the one believing but in the One believed - not in the one trusting, but in the One trusted.

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.

Optimism, " said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.

If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

When I was 17, I was a Lakers Girl; I was the youngest girl on the squad.

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

I was not always a man of woe.