The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

The heart of the gospel is that Christ has come to save us from the judgment of God.

He is the Creator and the sustainer of all things. He is the unchanging, self-existent God, and that means that He depends on nobody. He is neither helped by our faith nor hindered by our unbelief.

If you can grasp those two truths—you are made in His image and dependent on Him—you will discover a great dignity and at the same time a profound humility.

Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?

Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.

What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*

A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching

I tried to picture a bunch of guys in blue suits running around a beachside neighborhood, knocking on doors and flashing Fed creds. That should cause a stampede of illegal aliens heading south.

Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us.

Now you also know what it is to be wanted and loved.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.