The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life.

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.

There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.

Don't make your life bustop final destination, keep moving, focus on your VISION and don't give in.

Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

When I'm a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they'll believe me because they weren't listening to me.

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

And the moon never beams Without bringing me dreams And the sun never shines But I see the bright eyes I lie down by the side Of my darling My life, my life.