A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.

And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.

The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.

I've been offered radio but never done it, partly because the radio ideas that I've been asked to come up with, I've thought about them and then converted them to telly things.

I do like talk shows. I'm interested in talking to people.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

How do get rid of a little problem? You get a big problem.

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?