I've never walked to an altar in my life. I gave my life to Christ in my bedroom as a child.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

God has promised that whatever you face, you are not alone. He knows your pain. He loves you. And He will bring you through the fire.

In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!

Some people will not understand what the love of Christ compels you to do; do it anyway.

When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful.

It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.

The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.

The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.

It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.

Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand.

If I keep grinning maybe my inoperable colon cancer won't hurt so much.

There is nothing more terrifying than realizing that the one who knows you best loves you least, pities you even.

I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.

I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

It'll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But . . I'll get my revenge.

Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes.

It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.