Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes.

God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

God is Santa Claus for Grown-Ups.

...I can't make exceptions for myself. If I can run, I will run. I don't have to feel good to do it.

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

When I'm in the U.S. Senate, I will fiercely oppose the president's attack on Kentucky's coal industry, because protecting our jobs will be my No. 1 priority.

Anyone who tells you that the core issue is the needs of those living here illegally has simply spent too much time in Washington.

I try to renew and create something new every time.

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.