What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God's awareness of your situation.

When you come to the place where you can't do anything else, you must stand still and believe... When you can't do anything, let God do it all.

Take a deep breath and take this to heart; God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it's going to happen.

Faith sees the opportunity; doubt sees the obstacles. What you see is what you get!

When we get bumped - we spill what we are full of - Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.

God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.

Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.

Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust.

There is no entanglement where there is truth, and where there is no truth, there is entanglement of playing with ‘toys’ (interaction with people).

I write what the Holy Spirit put on my mind.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

He didn’t miss them. He didn’t miss any of his life, really, especially the last year. Time had simply been a bookmark. Something that held his place while he waited to finish the story.

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody.

All of Dad's relationships ended exactly the same: subpoena, beep of a moving van backing up the driveway, pile of his clothes burning on the front lawn.

We've had incredibly huge obstacles in our way - no tapes, no royalties, no cooperation on any level - and we sort it out.

A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.