I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.

Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

I now understand why the people chased Frankenstein up the mountain with torches. It was not because he was ugly but because they were. :)

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

Are you in the habit of taking tea with anyone who approaches you in a foreign port?” He went on and snorted carelessly. “No wonder you were abducted so easily.

True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.

I'd sit on a horse and forget I was even sick.

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.