I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

Only by learning the truth—whatever that truth might be—could people be given the right kind of power.

After she was gone, I sheathed her sword at my belt, draped her cloak over my shoulders, carried her heart in my arms, and, somehow, went on.

All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.

Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

You can't underestimate anyone.

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.