You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

Lord I thank you for the timely provisions

I want we to be friends, not to follow you.I want you to stop the lies, it's not awesome.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

I've always traveled, man, so I'm always out and everywhere.

My best friend is Lily Aldridge. Her daughter's my godchild.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

Help me, Jesus. I know what I am.

Love is giving someone the power to destroy you but trusting they won't.

I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

I married a Jewish lady, and we're raising our son Jewish, and since I'm not Jewish the whole thing is just a mystery to me. I leave it to her, actually, because it's just a great mystery.