The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD

God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.

I don't even think of chimps as animals. I think of them as beings.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

Champions are brilliant at the basics.

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.