Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

You can never have too many books or too many hugs.

And every human being is precious.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

Yes, I am very prolific.

At the beginning of your career, it's 'Who is Paul Newman?' and then it's 'Get me Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Get me a young Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Who is Paul Newman?'

Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation.

Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.

A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.