To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

It was impossible not to smile back-Nick radiated light.

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

I stare at Hans. Hans is shaped like an industrial-sized refrigerator. His hands are like cinder blocks.He should not be afraid of a little thing like the ocean.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil

In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.