If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

The doctrines of grace stand or fall together, and together they point to one central truth: salvation is all of grace because it is all of God; and because it is all of God, it is all for His glory.

No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.

There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.

Learn to focus on the light ahead instead of dwelling on the darkness that's already behind you.

I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

When I feel like I'm in a rut, I remember it's the little things in life that are important, like riding a bike with a friend or eating ice cream with my baby niece.

Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.

I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.

The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.

You play the golf course just like you played it in your practice rounds and you stick to your game plan and just try to get whatever you can out of it.

I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.