It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money.

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'

We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?

God made saints out of far worse people than you.

God will put someone in your path today who doesn't necessarily need you... but who desperately needs Christ in you.

God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.

The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.

Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish!

On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.

I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management.

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.

Each cat has a distinct purrsonality.

Government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us.

I cannot teach a child I do not know