As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.

It's not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters.

God may not allow you to touch thousands but He may allow you to touch one who will touch thousands.

Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.

God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.

Satan will try to use our troubles to worry and weaken us. But God uses them to strengthen us.

God... Please keep my eyes focused on the only target worth hitting - Christlikeness!

80% of the people who come into a Christ-following relationship is because a friend, co-worker, family member or neighbor invited them to church.

Men die the way they lived.

You don't have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous.

When Jesus Christ forgives you of sin, He never brings it back up.

Holiness always exalts a person and brings him closer to God

Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

If they cheat, can I shoot them?

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.

Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.