Everything we have comes from (God's) hands; even if we worked for it or earned it, He still gave us the ability and the opportunity to do it.

Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment.

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.

Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the message of good news - the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Some of the greatest values that have influenced me through the years are those that I learned as a boy growing up on the farm. I remember mostly the love in our family, but I also remember the discipline. Then there was the work; we all had to work.

Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.