You have to become the 'first of yourself' instead of trying to become the second of anyone.

Working ten times as hard will make you twice as good.

Our presuppositions shape our perspective, our perspective shapes our priorities, and our priorities shape our practice.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who seek God and those who seek to avoid him... and both will be successful.

Because of Christ, even our catastrophes have purpose. God is preparing our character for the time when we will see Him face to face.

Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us.

A person may forget 90% of what a leader says, but he will never forget how the leader lives.

Jesus' blood was shed for us all; what remains is for us to accept His sacrifice in faith and obedience.

Give me the grace to believe that you really do know what is best for me and that I do not. May I cling to Your character and rejoice in Your pursuit of me.

In all spheres of life, we find the grace of patient endurance.

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

I think I've been able to be in some really good projects with some really good people.

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.