Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

We don't really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.

With Fred McDowell, I just love the way he articulates the notes. I'm hardly unique in that, but there's just something about that that I love.

I really think I am a nice person. [But] this is not going to be an election on niceness. This is going to be an election on competence.

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'

Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.

The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.

I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.