Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.

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.

One fish in your net is better than a thousand in the ocean.

Don't be afraid of the dark." She tousled his hair tolerantly. "I've never known a man who wasn't scared of more things than I was.

We found the future, like birds fly into windows.

I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped — when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.

Peter Shilton conceded five, you don't get many of those to the dozen

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary.

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.