The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to be elevate….

Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect l….

I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic ….

God notices you. The fact is he can't take his eyes off of you. However badly you think of yourself, God is crazy about you. God is in love with you.….

Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost….

I grew up hearing everyone tell me 'God loves you'. I would say big deal, God loves everybody. That don't make me special! That just proves that God ….

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed.

I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts..

Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down ….

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep..

Let people see your struggles and don't ever fake it..

Sometimes I think of Abraham How one star he saw had been lit for me He was a stranger in this land And I am that, no less than he And on this ro….

The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily..

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human..

If you've ever known the love of God, you know it's nothing but reckless and it's nothing but raging. Sometimes it hurts to be loved, and if it doesn….

...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology,….

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by..

I take comfort in knowing that it was the shepherds to whom the angels appeared when they announced Christ's birth. Invariably throughout the course ….

I have no physical genius about me. I cant dribble a ball and run at the same time, I cant do lay-ups - Im not an athlete. But my experience as a kid….

I can't see how You're leading me unless you've led me here, where I'm lost enough to let myself be led..

Theres a wideness in Gods mercy I cannot find in my own And He keeps His fire burning To melt this heart of stone Keeps me aching with a yearning….