If you live real good, I can guarantee you are gonna get beat up real bad!

Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours.

I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.

We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.

Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths.

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.

Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept.

Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love.

I always get scared doing a job. To this day, I start every job thinking, I really can't do this. And what I do when I'm insecure is I tighten up. If you work through the night you can do anything.

I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.

Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.

I'm not a plotter or a schemer. I'm a guy that looks at problems and tries to solve them, which I have done all of my career, creating jobs in Washington, creating jobs in Ohio.

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

I think the fans would love anybody who played Jacob. I'm just lucky to be the one who got the chance.