Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.

A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.

Children are prophets of nature.

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

I think every person has the ability to affect change...through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world.

The universe without music would be madness.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.

Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies?

Pursue the thing inside us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us and others will compete with us.

The show [ Vampire Diaries] knows how to keep people on the edge of their seat, that's for sure.

Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place