The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.

Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

...try to remember that dreams do come true, but they don't come easily.

The paradox of life

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.

I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.

Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and it has no opening through which to feed it soup?

We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius."