...I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

God has promised that whatever you face, you are not alone. He knows your pain. He loves you. And He will bring you through the fire.

In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!

Some people will not understand what the love of Christ compels you to do; do it anyway.

When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful.

It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.

The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.

The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.

It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.

Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand.

Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.

The best way to fight evil is to do some good. Let me qualify that—the best way to fight evil at home is to do some good. The best way to fight them abroad is to unleash the military.

I want the material I make to be mine; that's always the goal of the record and of the show.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.

The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community doctor, public health preventive medicine.