One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

Set me free, let me be me, let me fly, fly high and away, let me breathe freedom...

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.

I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come.

An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

I think in the same way you find a song that you feel represents the way you feel on the inside, that's for me what fashion is all about. It's sort of an external expression of an internal feeling.

Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.