The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

You can never be happy if you're trapped in the past and fearful of the future. Living in the present is the only way to be happy.

As important as increase is, it is not an end in itself

I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.