If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

Her face looks as if it had worn out two bodies.

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me.

Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

Out my window.. I see everything I dream about and wished I had

For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the artist, then you probably shouldn't be representing them.

I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.

Following celebrities or people you don't regularly see in person often doesn't add to our happiness. The best use of social media is to deepen existing close relationships or create new ones.

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.