When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. keep fighting. keep loving

When you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That's a gift.

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I have even heard it said that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.