We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.

Faith lifts the soul, Hope supports it, Experience says it must and Love says...let it be!.

Live simply, so that all may simply live.

The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.

The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it.

Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.

We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.

When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it.

Can you expect to go to heaven for nothing? Did not our Savior track the whole way to it with His tears and blood? And yet you stop at every little pain.

Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.

Be attentive to the voice of grace.

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.

When a man goes silent on his ways and plans, you must ponder!

I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so.

Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.

faith without doubt is addiction

I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made.