The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

God put a certain potential into us that is totally sufficient to carry out the assigned task

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.

True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

As they were carting him off on a gurney, all I could think was, I wish that was me.

In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

Don't show up to prove. Show up to improve.

With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed.