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

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

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.

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

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.

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes.

God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ.

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.

'Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.

The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.