“While we were at rest, Christ was in rescue mode. While we were doing nothing, He was doing EVERYTHING. He was down in the depths of the earth fighting for our freedom.”

Humility is not a character trait to develop, it’s the natural by-product of being with Jesus.

Whenever you say ‘yes’ to anything, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your ‘yes’ is worth the less.

Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has done; expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live.

God’s words trump all opinions, including mine, and in the end, I believe God’s words lead to life.

As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it – but they already are! They want to see us get real.

To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.

God is faithful. God is faithful. 400 years might go by, but never count God out.

It’s time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake.

We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.

The Word of God isn’t for one particular season. It’s for every season. But in its specific application, it’s best read from Thanksgiving to Christmas.

Life only works when Jesus is everything and we are fully submitted to Him.

God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

The wonderful living Word of God is more precious than anything else that we have.

You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.

The word advent means “expectation.” What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Don’t be serious, be sincere.

I’m from New York and I love New York and I’m always repping New York, but what I represent is something deeper than just being a New York rapper.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.

Fear makes us fiction writers.