The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn’t make any difference.

But when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out.

Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.

Sometimes when the wind is blowing in my hair, I cry because its coolness is too beautiful

We've just barely stopped being monkeys.

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.

I believe in the power of you and I

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.