...faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers...

If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.

If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.

True spirituality is "the place where desperation meets Jesus.

Dreams without deadlines are dead in the water. Deadlines are really lifelines to achieving our goals.

...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.

...opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads.

You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.

When we do what's right, regardless of circumstances or consequences, we set the table for God to turn the tables. All we need to do is stand up, step in, or step out.

Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are.Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.

A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

A leap year Is never a good sheep year.

I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.

The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

No matter what time of year it's always funny when a person walks by me dressed in religious garb and I say Happy Halloween!

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

He doesn't get ulcers - he gives them.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.