Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

God will help us become the people we are meant to be, if only we will ask Him

We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.

God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.

Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow

Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.

The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.

This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is...Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

Broke is a Hollywood term!

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

Bill Clinton was punished for his behavior.