I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now.

God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it.

Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you

In the gospel, we discover we are far worse off than we thought, and far more loved than we ever dreamed.

God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting.

Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

Out of these ashes beauty will rise.

There’s a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home.

Looking with eyes of love is about not only looking, but seeing.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

Trust is earned. Like gold.

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

It is a very powerful feeling to know that my work is affecting people and to hear it from them directly.

Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree.