The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

My heart hurts that means I’m alive.

My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.

Neither here, nor there. But everywhere.

I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.

We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

You know when I say that things happen in matches? Well, it just happened there.