As you give God your time, your gifts, your resources and talents, He will use them to have a critically important and eternal impact on this world.

We need to stop making what people did to us bigger than what Jesus did for us.

Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words.

If you entrust God with your 'here,' He will take you 'there.' If you give Him your 'now,' He will take care of 'then.'

Allow God to continually soften your heart so that it beats for what his heart beats for - people.

Jesus didn't come to make us safe. He came to make us dangerous to the kingdom of darkness.

Christian life isn’t a one-person race. It’s a relay. You are not alone; you’re part of a team assembled by our unstoppable God to achieve his eternal purposes.

Don't allow any set back to become bigger than your come back

When there is a fight between your heart and your head, experience has taught me that the best thing you can do is pick up your Bible and remind yourself of what God says.

We have so many Christians who want to change the world, but they don't want to change themselves.

It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.

There's something to said about smaller bed - you're forced to stay close to me. Where you belong.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

My music is my No. 1, and I've got people who believe in me and keep me going. I'm thankful.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

You will never be completely free from risk if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.