Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.

God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.

A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty.

Living to glorify God means doing everything... for Him, His way, to point to His greatness and to reflect His goodness.

Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us. To lay down our desires and do what's in his or her best interest. To care for him or her even when there's nothing in it for us. To want that person's purity and holiness because it pleases God and protects him or her.

One of my defining beliefs is that Jesus Christ has taken all of my guilt before God, and that he has been raised from the dead. That gives incredible hope and meaning to every day of my life - that nothing done in this world is wasted when it's done for him and his glory, and that there will be a day of justice and reward for the entire world.

The most romantic things a man can do for a woman are the little things that let her know that she's on his mind and in his heart.