Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.

We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

If the road to your dreams is full of potholes, take the highway.

The nerves, the anxiety, the pressure, it's all gone. Being in his arms took it all away.

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words.

Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world.

I believe how I live my life every day is my act of worship.

I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

It matters not how long you live, but how well.

I love sharing my passions.

When I wake up, I'll go through emails on my iPhone - the junk email. At that point, my brain isn't usually awake enough to handle anything more than that.