The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

Personal Responsibility is the state of being the person who caused something to happen.

God, keep me from what they call 'households,'

When you find yourself on the side of majority, question yourself about what you are doing and why. It is likely wrong.

We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity

I'm happy that I've raised six kids, and not one of them is a Ph.D.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different.

There isnt a single windmill owner in Holland who doesnt have a second job, for when there is no wind.

Empathy in broadest sense refers to the reactions of one individual to the observed experiences of another

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.