Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD

God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

If you achieve good results using a poor method, isn't that a much greater achievement than starting from better methods. - Rider

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly.

I could just felt the twinge of resentment with her being there, where my mother was supposed to be. What right did she have, to replace that place?

I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won.

I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

The bill is emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to control every aspect of our lives.