Much of Satan's time is spent trying to make you remember what God has already forgotten. Reconcile, rejoice, and look forward.

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'

We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?

God made saints out of far worse people than you.

God will put someone in your path today who doesn't necessarily need you... but who desperately needs Christ in you.

God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.

The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.

I pressed my hand against her hair, holding her to me, filled with the certainty that she was going to hurt me again and that I didn't have the strength to push her away before she did.

Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.

Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

You don't have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself.

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.