Being wholly given over to God now is the essential and best possible preparation for future service.

if we are to see a new reformation, we will have to break away from these patterns and seek to recover the authentic biblical gospel, learning again to think and act in God's way.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

You look back and reflect and there are things you could do better - even when there's been an 'experience that was unjust.

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.

If you're reading this, I hope God opens incredible doors for your life this year. Greatness is upon you. You must believe it though.

Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the barriers in your life, and develop discipline, courage and the strength to permanently move beyond them, and keep moving forward.

The only way you're going to reach places you've never gone is if you trust God's direction to do things you've never done.