Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats.

Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.

He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.

To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.

We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.

In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.

The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'

The One who knows the fullness of my sin loves me as my Father right now.

God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

But if I hadn't shoved you off the boat back there, you'd be lost at sea now, wouldn't you? We'd all be lost! So thanks to me you're all standing on land."(Pirates, its a good thing they're idiots)

Isn't it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?

Weather out the storm in the island of tranquility to find inner peace.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.

Animals are footprints of God.

This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well.

I didn’t write 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I’m not even sure who they all are. I can’t wait to see the movie.

My message to the fans would be that hopefully I can continue to perform as consistently as I have done this season and lift a trophy for them soon.