Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

God has promised that whatever you face, you are not alone. He knows your pain. He loves you. And He will bring you through the fire.

In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!

Some people will not understand what the love of Christ compels you to do; do it anyway.

When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful.

It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.

The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.

The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.

It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.

God talks to His people-to each one of us-through His Word, through the counsel of godly friends, and through the Holy Spirit.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Your current body is the only body that can take you to your new body—so be kind to it.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

America's been very, very good to me. I've been very lucky and worked a lot there, and appreciate and love the work that I've done.

Would I drown saving him?

I get way down in the music / Down inside the music.

Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.