You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.

You are either in the Word and the Word is conforming you to the image of Jesus Christ, or you are in the world and the world is squeezing you into its mold.

You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.

Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.

A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.

The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.

My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.

How big is your God? The size of your God determines the size of everything.

You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.

When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.

God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.

You cannot be afraid of the unknown. In every moment and with every step you take, the unknown becomes the known.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It's also the dangerous part and it's an ugly emotion that hurts.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.

We all love being outdoors. Grandma was in her garden or fishing; Mama loves to fish and I love to be outside. We all love the Lord.

When I feel hurt, I fully experience my emotions (and don't make them anyone else's problem!). Then I question my thoughts, examining my belief system and meeting the reality of life.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.