Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.

Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.

Don't try moving mountains God ordained you to climb.

in my experience, the words “now just calm down” almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.

One race, Many cultures, One place.

We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

We are dealing with veterans, not procedures; with their problems, not ours.

Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.

Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.