We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.

There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.

eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants

We can’t flee from temptation in our own strength—but God will give us the strength we need, if we’ll only seek it. A friend of mine says, “When the devil knocks, I just send Jesus to the door!

I chew my food, leaning back into the couch. “I loved him. That’s what dumb girls do.”“You aren’t dumb.”I try to hold back my smile. “I’m hanging out with you, aren’t I?

Getting rid of the drugs doesn’t get rid of all the other ways you learned to deal with the world. It’s not that easy.

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

A four-year degree shouldn't be the only path to a good-paying job.

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.