If your prayers haven't been answered, it doesn't mean they won't be answered. In fact, they may have already been answered, but just not in the way you wanted or expected them to be.

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.

Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance. (p. 176)

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

His action was inexcusable, but it was forgivable.

You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.

I'm grateful for the life I have. I lived bad for many years, and I've got a great life now. I've got the kind of life people only dream about.

Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

You never know exactly what pop cultural moment a show is going to step into.