Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

I’m not a Christian because I’m strong and have it all together. I’m a Christian because I’m weak and admit I need a Savior.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Girls in love will do desperate and creative things.

Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.

You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside.

I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

I never had stock endings. I didn't believe in stock endings. To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to make the [reader] say, "Yeah, that's what would happen" - that was my objective.

The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.