I want to live with autonomy. That's the essence of sin.

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.

Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.

Don’t be that kind of person who goes about falling in love everywhere.

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.

Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.

The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.

Before a fight between Riddick Bowe and Hector Gonzales: Generally when there's a lot of smoke . . . there's just a whole lot more smoke.

The more anybody wants a thing, the more they do think others want it.

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.

Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing.