Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do. Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.

Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.

God is greatest physician.

I leveled the gun and fired until it was empty.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

I do a public access show with puppets. Puppets called actors, TV and movie stars.

I love Lil Wayne, that's like my little brother. He's just the coolest dude on Earth.

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.