The health of marriage and the health of society are bound together; as one goes, so goes the other.

The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.

The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.

God is enough like us to understand our problems and enough above us to be able to solve them.

Since the success of believers is tied to our knowledge of and obedience to God's Word, the memorizing of portions of the Bible is advisable.

Every demonstration of God's faithfulness to us is an opportunity for us to testify of Him to others.

Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.

Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

The people who love you will guide you like bright lights into the other worlds.

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Marlee [Matlin] is who she is and just happens to use an interpreter. I'm not a teacher. I'm not a helper. I'm just Jack, the interpreter guy.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!

If I have to be objectified in my twenties to be taken seriously in my thirties, I'm doing something right.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.