He hadn't done it, and there was no point thinking about might-have-beens

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?

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 happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

The flea that doubts doesn't jump nearly as high

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great

Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

You cannot predict when grace takes place; you can only wait. Relax.

When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

Any two people have different ideas of what is important.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.