Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.

This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus

People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.

Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.

Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians

The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.

Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

A kiss should be personal, not a mandatory public event

In movies, everyone is always surprised the door is unlocked.

School's out forever, school's been blown to pieces.

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.