There appears to be value in getting past a mentality that good things can only rest in good things.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were

What is your story? Be ready to share it when the Lord gives you the opportunity.

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.

You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.

I don't know how I absorb things, but I do. I just absorb them. I don't over read the script, and I don't really ever spend much time learning it.

There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Being a man with a conscience I simply felt that I had to do something - anything! - about the world we live in.