Fear is vision without hope.

Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.

You don't need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.

Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.

Everyone has something to teach you if you are humble enough to learn.

Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.

Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.

God loves you enough to receive you as you are. He loves you too much to keep you as you are.

Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written.

Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

Faith is not just what we believe internally. It's how we behave externally.

Victory is always bittersweet.

Do not fear the fire within you, burning brighter than any star it attracts only those whose flame feeds off the very air that you breathe. Let passion be the inferno that engulfs your soul.

If this is Heaven, I am in big trouble.

I turn and run, watching my feet trample a massacre of weeds. I mourn them. The only thing that grows is dandelions in the cracks of the sidewalk and we always end up killing them.

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

I'm a believer that some messages are not meant to be shared publicly. They're meant to stay inside the clubhouse.

When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.