Are you willing to go the extra mile in this new year to know God?

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'

We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?

God made saints out of far worse people than you.

God will put someone in your path today who doesn't necessarily need you... but who desperately needs Christ in you.

God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.

The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.

I generally find subtlety a waste of time.

The “result” of micromanagement is perhaps tangible in the short run, but more often causes damage for the long term.

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

When I went on Fox News people asked me why I was going on those shows. Are you kidding? You have to go, especially to people you don't agree with.

Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company.

I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.

I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.