"By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person."

“I directed an episode of Touched by an Angel a couple of months ago, and I will be doing more of that. I just like to keep a bit of variety going; it keeps things interesting.”

“The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.”

Source : Quoted in Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978).

“THANKS: Be Grateful for what God has given you GIVING: Be Faithful with what God has given you.”

“Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.”

“Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ's body must throw off these poisons and let love permeate and cleanse every tissue and cell. Nor are we to allow ourselves to become easily discouraged when love is not always obviously successful or pleasant. Love never quits, even when an enemy has hit you on the right cheek and you have turned the other, and he's also hit that.”

“My way has always worked. My way is what got me here.”

“The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.”

Source : John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.170, Multnomah

“...Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.”