Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.

We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.

From Genesis to Revelation, here's the central message: God Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God, the Triune God is in control of all things, period.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.

We are the product of our thinking, so it is important that we choose carefully where to focus our mental energy.

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

My own growth comes not (just) individually, but mainly as part of a greater change for the better.