Any person that says, "Of course I wouldn't do ______" doesn't know their own heart.

God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man.

Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

If your friends never make you uncomfortable. You don't have friends. You have fans.

Is Jesus a Saviour who saves you, or is he an assistant who helps you save yourself?

Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God.

Would your city weep if your church did not exist?

We should never intentionally offend, but if you follow Jesus, you will offend religious people.

If there is no challenging of the sinful heart, there is no gospel preaching.

You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.

Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

She stretched beneath him, bare and aching, held captive by an entirely new form of magic, one she'd thought existed only in books and movies.

I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn't really lose

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.

It is not permitted that we should know everything.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons.

The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast