Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.

The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.

He prays best who does not know that he is praying.

Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey.

Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.

We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.

Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.

Many business people end up being relationship rich, and referral poor.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

In England, where I come from, fashion and music go hand in hand. They're integral to each other.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product.

I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

We've been human countless times and done everything you can imagine. So we've been planting all these negative seeds, and they're going to come up.