The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.

Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.

Don't let the good things of life rob you of the best things!

The workshop of character is everyday life.

Some things don’t just happen, they happen because somebody decided to make them happen.

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

No one person leads alone - can't do it, it's impossible. It doesn't make any sense. You need a team.

Arizona has a very, very special place in my heart. I love people of Arizona.

The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you

I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

I never ask Candace Parker if she was thinking about leaving because I never had any reason to believe she would. I just kept the focus on the team and on Candace and the role she played for us.

I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired.