If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

The student must be humbled to be trained by the teacher.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

I'm against TPP and I'm going to oppose it.

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing

My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

There is a better way to do it - Find it!

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?