Very, very rarely will I leave San Antonio to speak somewhere else. I used to do that, and it just about wore me out, so I quit traveling.

You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world.

Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.

Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.