When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.

Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.

Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.

My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don’t get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.

[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.