Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

Spring shows the power and love of the earth

Be yourself.

Nothing carries more potential for change than individual acts of human kindness.

A key to manifestation is that when the doors of opportunity open, you have to walk through them.

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

If I have to move on from Newcastle, hopefully it will be to somewhere else

I think that variety is the key to our success. It is what makes us [artists] different, and long may that continue.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.