Outlook determines outcome.

Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.

If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you'll be delighted.

God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.

If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.

Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.

If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

He knows when we go into the storm, He watches over us in the storm, and He can bring us out of the storm when His purposes have been fulfilled.

The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us.

The way we behave toward people indicates what we really believe about God.

The greatest judgment God can send on His people is letting them have their own way.

The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

For one entire day I let his kiss burn on my cheek and into my blood and I don't push the memory away... This kiss, these words, they feel like beginning.

I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.