We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

Senses disabled by fear.

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.

It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.

There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli.

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

Is my strike zone bigger than others? Yeah. It might be bigger than others, but I don't have a problem with it.

I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in.