And I really suspect that of all the things we think we want to know, the only thing we really want to know is that we are loved. And if Jesus means anything, he means that you are loved. I hope you know that. And I hope you stop worrying about all the stuff you don't know, because I don't think it amounts to a hill of beans.

So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all.

Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence.

I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.

It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.