When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.

Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

Seek to complete rather than compete.

Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.