The Christian views trials as a pathway to maturity.

My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.

God is awesome; he doesn’t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

Respect your dream.

Positive thinking can move mountains, fill up valleys and it can make dry bones to become alive again.

Fear calls out our doubts; God calls out our names.

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

Manstein is a man of illusions. ... He believes Hitler will listen to facts.

Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?

I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when

Everybody has fear. The difference is that the coward does not control fear and the brave... gets over it.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.