Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.

We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.

Hope comes not from the people around you, but from yourself.

Trials are a measure of your faith, so be courageous when going through trials in life.

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

I think it's important to be authentic to who you are, and if you're inauthentic at all, people smell that from a mile away.

It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.

To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border.

Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach