I'll preach anywhere. If it's a round trip ticket to preach in hell, I'll take it-as long as it's round trip.

Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.

You don't need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.

Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.

Everyone has something to teach you if you are humble enough to learn.

Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.

Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.

God loves you enough to receive you as you are. He loves you too much to keep you as you are.

Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written.

Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

Faith is not just what we believe internally. It's how we behave externally.

Nothing but education defines the future of a person and the future of a nation.

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

I look down the farthest side of the mountain, fulfilled and understanding all, and truly content that I lived a full life and one that was my own choice

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

The world is in your hands, now use it.