O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

On impulse, he leaned over and brushed his lips against hers.

Regardless of all what you have done or the treasures you have acquired on earth, what counts before God is what you have invested in the Kingdom of God

Positive energy knows no boundaries. If everyone were to spread positive energy on the Internet, the world would be a much better place.

You win and lose as a team.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment of silence' is a deafening roar to a nonbeliever.

My marriage is the most important thing in my life, but in a weird way I'm able to focus on other things more clearly by having it in my life.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.