[On visitors after having a new baby...] "Put a lock on the door, barricade it if you have to. No one gets past that front door unless they come bearing one of two things: food or cleaning products!

Many use the word “Kingdom” flippantly. Even though we sing about it in our praise songs, we talk about it in our sermons, yet we seem to still not understand its reality in our daily lives

The more we read, the better we are informed.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

You know God gives me that inner strength that super strength to get through things.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

I will not be labelled as average.

But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.

Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.

The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands.