Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.

There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.

You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.

Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior.

The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.

Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.

Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.

God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.

I know I might rub people the wrong way sometimes, but I'm just a kid living my dream... I'm enjoying my life.

Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

To try to explain something as "I love it" and "It's fun" would be like describing the sunset over the middle of the ocean as "bright and pretty." It's just not that simple.