If Jesus is here we are going to walk out of this place to live our lives to the glory of God the Father.

Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship.

God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’

God's plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day.

Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.

God calls each and every star by name. It’s not likely He has forgotten yours.

Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.

Sin doesn't make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn't make us better, the gospel makes us alive.

The Father doesn't give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

All religions are guesswork

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.

I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

Using your car as a weapon and impenetrable armor.

You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.