It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

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.

...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.

Tom . . . is Christ among us?' 'Yes.' Where? Why do I not see him? Why does he not come to me?' 'Because you did not love, ' Neville said, hating the fact that he had to say it.

His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade.

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.

I used to get drunk every night until I puked. Finally I admitted, "I am a bulemic".

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.

People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!