When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'

We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?

God made saints out of far worse people than you.

God will put someone in your path today who doesn't necessarily need you... but who desperately needs Christ in you.

God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.

The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.

The quality of goods and services are always viewed as more important than the compensation.

We all know what needs to be done - it's the doing it that is the challenge!

Consistency and accuracy instills believability

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labor.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

Leaders should be the chief repenters.

I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.

I have been extremely fortunate to have incredibly special fans support my work throughout my twelve year career.

Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.