God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.

The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

Have you ever said, “Well, all we can do now is pray”? . . . When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.

I will not see you, she tells the city, but I will remember you.

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

Today I release the need to blame anyone, including myself.

The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you.

Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that.

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

Jesus is magic, because he turned water into wine. I think he made the statue of liberty disappear in the 80s or something.

There’s an Iago and a Romeo within all of us. There is that lover, and there is that sociopath.