Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said – one of the famous lady novelists – ‚unhappy is the family that contains an author‘?

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Great loves too must be endured.

My wife is already in Heaven.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‚See if you can blow this out.‘

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.