Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving.

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

The cost of redemption cannot be overstated. The wonders of grace cannot be overemphasized. Christ took the hell He didn't deserve so we could have the heaven we don't deserve.

For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.

How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?

Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!

People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.

Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.” ― Traci Lea LaRussa

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.