Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence.

Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours.

I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.

We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.

Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths.

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.

Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept.

Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

If you understand, things are just as they are... If you do not understand, things are just as they are...

I can assure you that the life outside the front door is bright and full of life

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.

I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.

Heaven must be in me before I can be in heaven.

The more I looked, the more I found Christian Atheists everywhere.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

The worst financial transaction you will ever make is selling yourself short.

You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.