The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.

How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.

My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.

Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.

Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel.

Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.

True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

There is nothing more important to learn about Christian growth than this: Growing in grace means becoming like Christ.

Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you

Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian

The fear of the Lord tends to take away all other fears... This is the secret of Christian courage and boldness.

If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

The purpose of it all is love.

Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to others.

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

I think what people really hate is to be caught by surprise by criticism.

At least it's better to be married than to be dead.

Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.