Tough times don't define you, they refine you. ‪

Most people like it when the pastor says, "family is priority." What they don't like very much is when the pastor actually chooses his own family as the priority over them.

Going to church is a beautiful act of humility. You are saying to the world, "I need God and His family.

Our weakness is an invitation to discover God's strength.

It's not the amount of Bible you read, it's the amount of Bible you believe.

Jesus is more interested in your heart than your ministry.

Jesus did not die just to save you from hell. He paid the price to give you all of heaven.

Dear Church, everyone is broken, stop pretending like you're not.

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.

It's hard not to get down on the government when you see dysfunction play out on our TVs every day. Frankly, sometimes at every level of government.

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

Love is an act of imagination. For some of us, it will be the greatest creative triumph of our lives.

Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.

Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.

When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.