What is an angel? The two words that come closest to a true biblical answer are "manifestation" and "servant".

Patience is a particular requirement. Without it, you can destroy in an hour what it might take you weeks to repair.

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart, but do not expect to reach the promised land without going through some wilderness together.

Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

The best help we can offer the youth of today is to prepare them for tomorrow.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.

My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist.

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process