An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own.

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.

There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.