Mission exists because worship doesn't.

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.

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

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.

Destiny is desire meeting opportunity. You become who you are driven to be.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

Greatness in the mat is achieved through training that make you push to survive.

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.