Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!

The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship.

God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.

God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.

The inspiration and authority of the Bible is the bedrock upon which our faith is built. Without it, we are doomed to uncertainty, doubt, and a hopeless groping in the darkness of human speculation.

If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.

Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

Worship is first and foremost a feasting on all that God is for us in Jesus... [One] in which God is the host, the cook, the waiter, and the meal itself.

Where there is no fruit, there may be no root.

She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain.

People do not by default follow the strongest, but they follow the bravest

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.

If you only knew who you really are, you'd be starstruck

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.