Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience.

The heaven I witnessed was so pure, love-filled, and magnificent that I did not want to return to earth.

No matter what the circumstances, we can be grateful that God fulfills His promises, that our faith is sufficient to sustain us, and that our eternal life is assured.

Faith allows us to confidently walk with God into a future filled with joy; one that can become an extraordinary and amazing adventure.

Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing."

Live a life of prayer, giving glory to God and continually listening for His guidance.

The more we love, the more love we have to offer. So it is with God's love for us. It is inexhaustible.

When you are doing God's will everything seems to happen without much effort or many obstacles.

Even when it feels as if we are being crushed by earthly troubles, we can remain joyful. If we keep our focus on God, our spirit cannot be trampled.

God promises to open the door when we knock, and to always welcome us back into his love, no matter how far we have strayed.

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

The closest thing to Heaven, is having a peaceful mind, and a beautiful, pure heart.

No person, relationship, or religion should complete you. They can enhance whatever is already there, but completion of the self comes from within, not from anything beyond that.

Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. It's so hard to tell you're a mile away by the Luke in your eye.

Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.