I listened to God and to my husband, not the the enemy's whispers, not to other people's opinions.

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

If He strips us of all our own resources, we just might learn to lean on Him. And to start praying again.

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

Create with the heart

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Potty mouth, rock star, at the top and still tryna climb, Drop the top sit back recline

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies.

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?