The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.

Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.

If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you'll be delighted.

God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.

If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.

Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.

If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

He knows when we go into the storm, He watches over us in the storm, and He can bring us out of the storm when His purposes have been fulfilled.

The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us.

The way we behave toward people indicates what we really believe about God.

The greatest judgment God can send on His people is letting them have their own way.

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

We are limited by our visual, physical senses; yet from the Scriptures we can readily conclude that heaven is indeed not distant at all. It is nearby.

Don't seek the water; get thirst.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.

...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.