There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!

The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine.

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all.

The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now.

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

Healing comes when we move away from the darkness and walk towards the light.

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

Call it devilish or divine, but once a man lets a thought become prevalent, it turns into reality.

The doer alone learneth.

Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.

I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD

We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.

Squat 300 times a day, you’re going to give birth quickly.

In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.

When you pick up your first magazine you definitely hope you can be like the guy on the magazine. That's usually why you start lifting.