Understanding is the wages of faith.

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.

Some men may be unready for the coming of the genie who grants three wishes.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me?

Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

Can you do that?” Thomas asked. “Huh?” “Kill someone three times.” “I’d figure out a way.

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.