...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

Anytime I'm not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I'm wasting my time. [Mark's brother-in-law, Matt ________, speaking]

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

...love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That is the kind of love Jesus shows to us.

...if you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.

...if you're walking with Jesus and you invite someone to walk with you, there is a good chance they'll get to know Jesus somewhere along the way.

Following Jesus is a verb.

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.

Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it.

Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP. Oh, they bring more unemployment.

I'm coming for you. I'm coming home, I'm coming to clean

I think Def Jam happened to be one of the labels that really didn't have a good grip on things that were going on. I'll say that - that's my political answer.

I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.

I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.

O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!