In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.

Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.

There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.

A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.

Political problems ruin meals. Let it be known as Eric’s Law of Lunch henceforth.

Push to achieve your dreams. Don't let anyone push you out of dreamland.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

Because I'm not attached to the outcome, I don't have to worry whether I succeed or fail.

I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.

I think my strength in teaching and what I get a lot of good feedback on is going towards the students and asking them what they are about. It's about putting your own personality into the work.