Some of the most heart-breaking letters I receive are from people who tell how alcohol or drugs have ravaged their lives and destroyed their families.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

I never really grew up until I had kids.

Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.