The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.

Waiting is an exercise of faith that demonstrates the condition of our hearts. Waiting on God is an act of faith. And faith is what separates the men from the boys.

When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.

Error increases with distance. It's true with bowling, and it's true with families.

What can I do to provide for my children that's really significant? The answer is to love their mother unconditionally.

The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come.

Life is the only race you'll run where you don't know where the finish line is.

It’s the quiet life of obedience that will earn a hearing

I'm not a Christian because I need a crutch. Hey, I need a stretcher!

How should we provide for our families? Financially, spatially (be near them), emotionally, morally, spiritually. ...I don't have what it takes to provide for my family spiritually; I need Jesus.

Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life.

Thanks be to God for his timely provisions.

The ultimate Maturing comes only when we lose our parent(s)

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.

I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.

It's important how we feel in our homes, because feeling good makes us more gracious. And that makes it easier to welcome others not only into our homes but into our lives.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.