Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

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.

You shouldn’t live for yourself alone but you must also learn to live the Christian life

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Confidence is very sexy. You could be not cute at all and have such confidence.

If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.

Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look".

I don't have beef with nobody.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.