We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.

God will help us become the people we are meant to be, if only we will ask Him

We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.

God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.

Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow

Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.

The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.

This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

I like imagining that he punished his body for me, torturing it into such spectacular shape, hoping that one day I'd be able to appreciate his efforts.

The doors to parenthood are accessible to all who know the codes and have the right keys.

Stop crying over someone who killed you, start crying over someone who made an effort to fix you.

Silence speaks when words can't.

Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.

Out of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?

I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.