We must evaluate every person, place, product, perspective, position, or pleasure we have looked to in place of the promises of God, and turn away from those things accordingly.

A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.

Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.

A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.

God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.

The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.

Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.

Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.