It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

Even when it is the most challenging, you will never know how far you will go unless you do It your way.

Winning isn’t getting ahead of others. It’s getting ahead of yourself.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.

Know not what you know, and see not what you see. [Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris; Ne videris quod videris.]

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?