However far I’ve come, it’s probably somewhere less than halfway of where I could be if I simply believed in myself.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

Genius does not only pertain to the brain, it belongs above all to the heart.

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

We have fossils... We win!

I've not actually been on too many dates.

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.

Volunteering is a window into the passions of the soul.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

We are going to stand together, united.