I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It's all about brutal honesty.

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.

Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.

Listen to the extremists - changes come from them.

Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan, 'Two cars in every garage'. Apparently, the Republican candidate this year is running on the slogan, 'Two families in every garage'.

Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of that trust, a lot more happens.

The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.

In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.

The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.