...when I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap.

You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

I think sometimes we think faith is about having all the answers. It isn't. But it's the thing that keeps you steady and in peace in the midst of storms.

How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death?

Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.

Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.

Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times

Love is friendship. Love is happiness.

Now that it is obvious we are falling at a furious speed, we are now just anticipating how much area will be covered by the dust from impact, how many more will not see their fall coming.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

I don't have much racial stuff in my act. And no one's ever really threatened me to my face. Threats on the internet don't bother me so much.

Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away.

When I first saw a strap on, I put it on my head and ran around like a rhino.

Behind every fortune there is a crime.

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

I speak up for myself. I claim my power now.

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.