People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.

When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.

The power of God unto salvation is not our passion for God, but the passion He has exhibited toward us sinners by sending his own Son to redeem us.

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

God’s Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It’s not only descriptive; it’s effective too, God speaking is God acting.

Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts-it's able to endure temptations-bec ause it faces them, not because it pretends they're not there.

I don't put bad people in the Void, Blayne. Only the guilty ones.

Love is when her smile act as a magic wand to vanish whole day fatigue...!!

She clasped his hands and pressed her lips to them. 'I want you to be proud of me, ' he repeated. She dropped his hands, feeling defeated.

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

To come home and share life experiences with friends is the key to what makes me feel really alive.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldn’t ever stop loving him, absolutely, for what he was.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.