The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

Aim high to achieve excellence. Be determined to succeed. Use self-discipline to achieve golden excellence.

The only real estate I will ever truly own is the space inside my head and heart. And what I build there is up to me.

We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature.

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

If you want to make god laugh, make a plan.

I hate when people are chomping their gum, even though I do it. I hate that.

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

Giving Cristiano that much time and space on the ball is like giving Dracula the keys to the blood bank

I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.