People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Everyday life, everyday miracle.

He's God....and his grace is a part of him working relentlessly on our behalf...never leaving, never abandoning, never stopping.

It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.

Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.

The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

Everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days.