Although the testimony of my mother’s life helped mold me and taught me how to live, the testimony of her last years and her death gave me insight into how to die.

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.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason, so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

Don’t try to make everyone happy

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.

We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

Accents are very easy for me.

What's done is done. The joy is in the doing.