You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.

God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me

Your first thought is what you've been conditioned to think

I know who I am, how I was. I don't want to know how I will be because nobody knows that.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.

I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.

It's best to know what the enemy are saying.

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

The world changes when there's music in it.

Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.