Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man.

If your friends never make you uncomfortable. You don't have friends. You have fans.

Is Jesus a Saviour who saves you, or is he an assistant who helps you save yourself?

Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God.

Would your city weep if your church did not exist?

Any person that says, "Of course I wouldn't do ______" doesn't know their own heart.

We should never intentionally offend, but if you follow Jesus, you will offend religious people.

If there is no challenging of the sinful heart, there is no gospel preaching.

You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.

Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.

Simplicity make no mans great, but makes life easier and not complicated.

When you embrace the darkness within, you will always live in the light.

I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it.

Education is the great engine to personal development.

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.