I study the bible regularly, meet with older wiser mentors weekly, and keep a group of guys in my life who challenge me spiritually. That keeps me moving.

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

I’m not a Christian because I’m strong and have it all together. I’m a Christian because I’m weak and admit I need a Savior.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

Giving up drinking for life is easy.I've done it loads of times.

The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want.

My strength would be my honesty and my passion towards my work.

It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.

Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.

The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.

The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.

Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling--it's about choosing.

You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.