Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'

We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?

God made saints out of far worse people than you.

God will put someone in your path today who doesn't necessarily need you... but who desperately needs Christ in you.

God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.

The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

There are people who don't like women holding power.

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

Frankly, you need to get over yourself. It might sound harsh, but that's seriously what it means [1 Corinthians 10:31].

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.

Three most important things in life, surf, surf and surf.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.

In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.

I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.