I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.

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.

Love is treating yourself at least as well as you treat others, understanding when someone isn't good for you and knowing when it's time to walk away...

In general, empathy is easier the more we can identify with someone. When we can genuinely envision ourselves in a situation, it's possible to intuit what that person's suffering might feel like.

Calling people 'sweetheart' makes most people enraged.

Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.

What does it mean?" Emily said, in a low, panicked voice: "What does it mean if a rainbow comes before rain?

Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.