Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed.

Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.

Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all.

Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything

The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.

Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Keep your hope in the Lord.

I've always sucked at games of chance. Always hated them for that reason.

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.

Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

We are responsible for our attitudes.

War makes early risers of us all.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.