An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor.

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

It's my job to manage my heart so that I can respond to you in love and cast out fear in our relationship.

Marriage isn't just a choice. It's choosing the same person a million times.

No one else can steward the fire inside of you because only you are in charge of it.

One of the symptoms of being free is you begin to dream.

In being vulnerable, we reach for our greatest need while risking our greatest pain.

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.

The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement

Powerful people can love without being loved back.

Only when we pray for one another, we will have peace.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

We always expect God and others to forgive us, but many of us don't have it in their hearts to forgive others. But don't forget that an unforgiving heart knows nothing about happiness.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

Pausing a few beats allows the spectators time to savor the experience of the miracle that has just occurred.