Proverbs 21:15 NIV:When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus

Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.

I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.

Why is the competition always so intense to set new records for maximum stupidity?

Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.

[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

There's nothing that anyone could say about me that would hurt my feelings.

The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence.

God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.