Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.

The Christian faith is faith in Christ. Its value or worth is not in the one believing but in the One believed - not in the one trusting, but in the One trusted.

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.

Yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep.

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

As metal rang on metal, some inner part of Jem, some part that had been lost without his even knowing it was lost, felt the pleasure of fighting together with Will one last time.

You must ban together with other women of like mind and for the first time find fellowship, womanship, without the need to compete, without having to climb to the top over each other.

Never be thrown off stride in how you behave or what you believe in because of outside events.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

First things first, second things never.

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.