A life taught in the Scriptures, and tuned in to God in prayer, produces an outflowing of grace and power.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear.""Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?""Poor grammar skills.

Poverty is not a circumstance, it's an attitude.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.

You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!

I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.

Nobody drowns by falling in the water...but by staying there.

I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.