There's always the threat of "spiritual one-up-manship" that we must avoid.

Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!

The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship.

God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.

The inspiration and authority of the Bible is the bedrock upon which our faith is built. Without it, we are doomed to uncertainty, doubt, and a hopeless groping in the darkness of human speculation.

If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.

Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

Worship is first and foremost a feasting on all that God is for us in Jesus... [One] in which God is the host, the cook, the waiter, and the meal itself.

That's it, cupcake. You're going down.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

Your true destiny on earth will always be greater than your best positive imagination of your future.

Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the razor-sharp steel.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes. That's solving a problem.

Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.