The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.

The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

Manuscript rejections might tempt you to quit writing or querying. Don't.

For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.