Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.

Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours.

I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.

We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.

Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths.

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.

Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept.

Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

One man's thorn is another man's rose.

If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law.

China has no income tax no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

I realized that I'm a child." William looked point-blank at her chest. "No.

Trapped dreams must die.

As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you.

You know, the critics never change; I'm still getting the same notices I used to get as a child. They tell me I play very well for my age.