We stand before God's wonder and yet we are disinterested and bored. This should not be.

Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.

The question is not whether or not you will face trials. The question is, how will you respond when you do?

Here's the grey rule: embrace things that lead you closer to Jesus, and reject things that lead you away from Jesus.

Training in God's gym may hurt sometimes, but He will make us stronger.

Faith that doesn't affect your life isn't really faith.

Folks need the Gospel. We need to have our hearts changed. We see people from a skewed point of view. We need to see people the way God sees them.

That's the new picture of the good life that I want to paint - living the way that God created us to live. That's what the good life is.

There is no halfway or lackadaisical way to fight lust. If you're not fighting your sin, you're befriending your sin.

Denying self isn't a one-time thing, but a daily task.

Instead of attacking people, we need to love people. It lights a fire under me because it's a reminder of why we need the Gospel. Our hearts are so corrupt.

Words are free, action is not.

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.

Work without fun is like peanut butter without jelly.

I do what I do because it seems to be critically missing in the world and I want to see it not-happen.

John McCain will follow the fanatics to their caves in Pakistan or to the gates of hell. What Obama wants to do is give them a place setting at the table.

Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!" "You're a bird." "Now say you're a bird too." "If you're a bird, I'm a bird.