It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?

Though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.

A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

... the more you know about life, the more you get out of it.

Over the years I've become more confident in people's ability to recognize a good thing.

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

Progress is mostly the product of rogues.