Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence".

The moon should be colonised, I thought. Mankind should seek a happier beginning, and humans should be free to stroll hand in hand regardless of their weight and orientation.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.

If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

I go to a poison registry and I find that no one has died from any overdose of any vitamins, herbs, or amino acids... But FIVE THOUSAND people end up dying from drug reactions in a single year.

NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.