You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

As a Christian, our existence here on earth is a sliver of the eternal pie. Our focus should be on the whole pie, and not the sliver.

A false sense of security is the only kind there is.

I am made all things to all men.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.

The person with a plan, a picture, will go after thoughts that add value to their thinking.

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

I wouldn't say I let myself down, just sometimes it doesn't go your way.