Without Ruth’s partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible. We were called by God as a team.

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.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.

And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance.

Every woman should feel like a princess on her wedding day

When I look inside myself, I find I am to blame, For everything that I've done wrong, And said others were to blame.

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don’t spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won’t get higher student outcomes.

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.