May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able. What about you, and me?

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

You get diminishing returns when you are restricted to your comfort zone

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.

Androids were never meant to dream.

Give me liberty or give me death.

God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.

It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.