Would your city weep if your church did not exist?

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.

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

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.

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.

We cannot prevail by our own might or strength, we need to plug on to the source of our strength so that we will remain resourceful always.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

I don't believe in proving a point to anybody. Nobody is that important.

Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.

I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe.

He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.