Requests will always exceed resources. Doing good is imperative. Doing everything is impossible.

It is our responsibility to discover our talents, to accept them as from God, to develop them through education and training, and to use them for His glory.

Our differences will also show up from time to time, underscoring the uniqueness of our personal endowments, the variety of our experiences, and the creativity of our sovereign God.

Loving ourselves is not some frothy sentiment. Nor is it an egotistical self-centerdness. It is obedience, obedience to the commandments of God that have to do with self.

But love doesn't do what's easy. Love does what's necessary and right.

You're different. We all are. We are each "one of a kind." This means each of us will live the Christian life differently.

The more a woman appreciates the hunting prowess of her man, the more he will kill for her.

I need to stop thinking about how people see me and figure out who I am. Faking it isn't working. We should focus on being happy....Just happy.

My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.

Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

I'm blessed to have great friends, and there are a lot of men in my life who've been more than just friends.

I've done all the dumping, which is not a good thing. It's funny, because I married someone who has always done it as well. I believe I met my match.

...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there.

I want purple trews, lass," Drustan called over the door. "No," she said irritably. "And a purple shirt.