It's not what happens to us that molds us. It's what we do with what happens to us.

Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.

Preach with authority. The authority for us is the Word of God. Preach with simplicity . . . Preach with urgency . . . heaven and hell are at stake. Preach for a decision.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Whenever I see that ball coming my way I am just hungry to get it. When I get the chance to take it I try to score as much as I can.

Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.