Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.

When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems

America is so outplayed by Putin and Assad, and by the way - and by Iran. Nobody can believe how stupid our leadership is.

I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.

Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

Some things are worth the fat and calories, although I have to watch it like a hawk.

The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.

Merchants have no country.