We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.

Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

May your find strength to pursue your dreams.

Trust is not an obsession, it's an extension of love. When we truly love someone, we give them our heart to hold in their hands. And when that love is returned, that very trust is balm to our souls.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives—of approving of some and disapproving of others.

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore what the world thinks of us or our record.

With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

All models are wrong; some models are useful.