Real gold fears no fire.

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

The cost of redemption cannot be overstated. The wonders of grace cannot be overemphasized. Christ took the hell He didn't deserve so we could have the heaven we don't deserve.

For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.

How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?

Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!

Wisdom is better than an inheritance

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

He Who Owns Himself Is Never Alone.

Be a master of yourself.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.

If you go to Germany and get drunk, at some point you will try to look up Hitler in the phone book.

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I like.

It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.