Ask God for the grace to live for Him and continue to live in Him. Right now, surrender it all to Him.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.

A man of purpose focuses on his destination, not his situation. Don't let your situation mislead you!

Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.

If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.

As a Christian, when your trial is getting hotter, you are getting closer to your breakthrough! Keep pressing!

Every day, God has something to say to you. Even when He seems to be quiet, God is still saying something.

I have never seen where hatred overcomes love. When you love, you overcome. Love is the most powerful weapon.

In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose.

When discouragement comes, don't stop. Dig deep and fight it through!

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

To support the people we care about is intrinsic, it is not instrumental. It's not something we do because we're hoping to get some other outcome.

An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.

We wait always for something that does not come.

For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.

You have to make a decision, what you want to do in life, ... Your deal can be, you can leave tomorrow. Soon as you leave, you will be forgotten.

The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.

Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.

I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what.

I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.