At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.

When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you to succeed, He’s calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him;the obedience is up to you.

A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance.

Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place.

Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply God has set His heart on you, to show you His love and care.

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.

And to think of all the colors in the world, blood chose to be red.

I think that initial independence is very important that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I sing this part, ' or, 'I want to play guitar.'

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

People, houses, streets, animals, flowers-everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately and newly starched the next morning.

There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.

Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.

We are the shadow cast by real people. And that shadow changes shape as the news cycle changes shape, so you always have fresh dirt to dig in.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.