Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

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.

Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there.

Patience is born when we create a pause between our experience of a feeling and our response to that feeling.

The victorious ones have saidThat emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.For whomever emptiness is a view, That one has achieved nothing.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

I did Internet dating for a while, and that is rife with horrible dating stories.

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.