God doesn't need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God's way to grow Christians.

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.

Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

I may be a nut, but I'm fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.

A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.

If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.

She was a beautiful woman, fresh-scrubbed and wholesome. Just like his ex-fiancee. A heartless floozy in disguise.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.

My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).