Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.

Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.

You don't need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.

Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.

Everyone has something to teach you if you are humble enough to learn.

Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.

Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.

God loves you enough to receive you as you are. He loves you too much to keep you as you are.

Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written.

Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

Faith is not just what we believe internally. It's how we behave externally.

Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living.

Promise yourself to forgive everyone, love everyone, and judge no one.

He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

Rather than critique people, try admiring God’s creative handiwork.

Forth in thy name,O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue. Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do.

A life is a life no matter how small

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.

Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.