God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

If people are troubled by their view, they ought to offer these New Orleanians, and black and poor people in the places like the Lower Ninth Ward around the country, a reason to believe otherwise.

He’s looking for people he can be himself around. Aren’t we all?

As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend.

Words are such fun!

Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.

Happiness is more about removing the blocks to Love and remembering who you are than changing your situation or another person.

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.