The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

I'm not a goose, you're the gooses for crying over nothing

I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.

I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

[The dancing] was a challenge. It was fun, though. I was nervous, at first, because I danced so long ago that it was weird picking it back up.

Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.

Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.