It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

I loved literally everything about this man

Others may predict my future but only I can determine my destiny.

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.

Why envy someone else's success when God has already blessed you with a mind to strive and achieve yours?

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.

It surprises me every day that this (Eddie Haskell) character is still so popular. I don't completely understand it but it's nice.

Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.