The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes.

God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House.

The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.

It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.

I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.

Get out of your house in the middle of a rainstorm, get soaked in it, and then strip down-to nothing but a smile.

Everything in your life right now is a possible episode.