In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, Their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids.

Freedom is something that you give yourself and no one else can ever take away.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.

There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

I tried to remember how to exhale. I had to look away before it came back to me.

In the department of homeland security and each agency that's there there's a morale problem. It's a different morale problem in each one.