The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart, that man is well-nigh hopeless.

The greatest ability is dependability.

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.

Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.

The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.

A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.

It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they become drunkards, libertines, and degenerates.

No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South.

If you do not do your God-assigned task, throughout eternity there will be a job that has never been done.

Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.

we raise them for us

We need to learn to protect our time.

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

Seventy-five percent of all Americans believe that angels are real. Which is amazing when you consider that forty percent of all Americans think DNA evidence is unreliable.

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.

There are no sects in geometry.

The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!