As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there is no such thing. To put it plainly, churchgoers who are 'lukewarm' are not Christians. We will not see them in heaven.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.

Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.

When your life gets to the stage of being mindful and concerned with impacting and blessing lives, then you are pursuing wholeness as an individual.

You want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

There's no point in really making something if it doesn't appeal to a lot of people or the masses or if it's not seen by a lot of people.

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.

There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.

[Donald] Trump's path to victory depends on getting historic levels of support from white voters, and particularly large numbers of white, non-college-educated voters.

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results.

Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.