Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Employees who are not engaged have untapped potential that sours like a perishable item.

History should be written as philosophy.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

God uses rescued people to rescue people.

Good words quench more then a bucket of water.

Many evangelicals believe religious freedom, if not religion itself, faces major problems with the government in the future.

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.