The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.

God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.

A few years after working on Mauna Kea, I discovered that I had radiation sickness

If love comes to you in a way that isn't the norm then at least it came to you

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no foundation - that is the foundation. The formless. The essence.

I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

The best things are not bought and sold.