If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I’d choose to have?

In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.

. . . you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the eye, smile, and say, "Hello.

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.

We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.

Don’t be overwhelmed . . . take it one day and one prayer at a time.

The truth is you always grow to love the people you pray for. That’s because you develop God’s heart of love for them.

I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him.

Praying is not telling God what to do. It's trusting that God knows what to do.

People's love for us may change, depending on what we do or don't do to please them. But God's does not-it's everlasting.

The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life time unenriched by experience creative endeavor enjoyment and suffering.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.