There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

You must change in order to survive.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

The first and worst of all fraud is to cheat ones self. All sin is easy after that.

A crown if it hurts us is not worth wearing.

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything except perhaps violence.

You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself.

My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it.

The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.

Songwriting is my gift from God.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

Humanity is the sin of God.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.