The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.

God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops.

Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.

Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.

Never give up praying until the answer comes.

Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.

In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.

One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.

We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.

We believe strongly that the road to peace and two states living side by side does not go through New York, it goes through Jerusalem and Ramallah.

She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.