Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.

The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

If someone doesn't like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone.

Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and sense the lies behind perceptions. ("Behind the frosted glass")

Personal qualities are much more important than qualifications.

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

I'm not tired of the work... I'm tired in the work.

Every single one of us already has everything we need to be the happiest person on earth; it's simply up to us to remember that in every moment.

The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.