Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house.

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.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

True love is a high and holy principle, altogether different in character from that love which is awakened by impulse and which suddenly dies when severely tested.

If someone else is paying for it, food just tastes a lot better.

Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

There are a lot of directors who make big money and do big things and then move out of the 'hood