The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

I can only change the world by changing myself.

We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained.

I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.

Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring.

And to walk through life in dreams out of love for the hand that guides us.

For me, it would be very difficult to express an opinion about our times without humor. I don't think you could do that.

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

I don't think it is pressure but I am aware sometimes, especially on this new album, that people were going to really pay attention.

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.