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.

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.

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.

Consider God's love for you. Now double it. Now multiply that by 900 trillion. You're still not even close.

New hair, new clothes-the classic relationship break-up makeover, " Jake said. breaking up with Sam. He just didn't know it.

There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"

I think that you should just create if you have the urge to create. There's a lot of other careers you can pursue to seek attention. If people want validation, there are other ways to get that.

Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

The way I see it, how can you really say you'll love a person longer than love lasts?

Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.

Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.