Endeavoring to live the Christian life by your own efforts is the greatest single hindrance to walking in the Spirit.

The people who really rule the world are those who know how to pray.

God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.

If you don’t get excited about the gospel, you’ve never really grasped what it’s telling you.

Faith is taking God seriously.

God does not measure everything by numbers or dimensions. He has another scale of values, according to which-asJesus Himself told us-one human soul is worth more than the entire universe.

We can not effectively serve God without the Holy Spirit.

Consider the work of Calvary. A perfect work, perfect in every respect, perfect in every aspect

A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.

The provision is in the promises.

We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.

I graduated from college and went on one job interview and was laughing in my own head because I wouldn't hire me.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Boutique hotels are great, but they get too cute. Some hotels have shoe polish. It's like, come on, this isn't 1960. No one's polishing their shoes.

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.

When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!

Even at summer time, I'm still jacket shopping. I've always found that if you find a really nice leather jacket you kind of just go with it because they're timeless.

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.

Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.