If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.

...faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers...

If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.

True spirituality is "the place where desperation meets Jesus.

Dreams without deadlines are dead in the water. Deadlines are really lifelines to achieving our goals.

...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.

...opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads.

You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.

When we do what's right, regardless of circumstances or consequences, we set the table for God to turn the tables. All we need to do is stand up, step in, or step out.

Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are.Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.

Miroku: Kagome, are you worrying about me?Kagome: I guess so.Miroku: In that case, I have a favor to ask of you: please bear my child.

We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

I'm just a kid having fun.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.