Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.

When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.

The power of God unto salvation is not our passion for God, but the passion He has exhibited toward us sinners by sending his own Son to redeem us.

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

God’s Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It’s not only descriptive; it’s effective too, God speaking is God acting.

The river asked me who I was to be gazing so longingly into her curving body of cascading dreams and shifting beauty.

Christ Jesus is full of compassion, if we come to Him, He will heal us.

Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

Every night is a time for drink.

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

The unknown always passes for the marvellous.