The greatest motivation to share the gospel w/ someone today & everyday: Another voice around the throne. A louder song for Jesus.

Worship is admiration becoming adoration.

The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry.

Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.

My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally sufficient.

We must begin to understand that the gospel deconstructs a man before it reconstructs him. First it teaches him he is entitled to nothing, and then it give him everything.

If I don't fight every day to 'fix' my eyes on Jesus, my ADD soul will look to a million lesser things.

If the gospel has never broken you, you have never really heard it.

Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise?

If there's no Scripture in the worship set, then it's not really a worship set.

We never begin worship. We aim it.

The door is always open for you. You just need to open your mind and walk into the heaven of love.

There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.

Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.

So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.