It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.

Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it.

God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.

Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live.

Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.

You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now.

If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right.

I'm not afraid to fail...I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.

Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn't love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man who'll break my Heart

Dogs speak words, but only poets and children Hear.

You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.

Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

Marriage is supposed to be permanent. It's like a tattoo that yells at you.

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.