In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Be grateful for the day and the day will be grateful for you. Stay positive and everything around you will respond in kind.

How am I going to explain to my kids one day that I can't buy them a happy meal because the toy will make them fat?

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

He who knows how to be content will be content with little.

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it.

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."

I'm a scorer, not a triple-double player

Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.

For like to like, the proverb saith.