Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.

My faith, my hermeneutics does not demand that I correlate every verse. In other words, there are often verses that appear, I'm a John 3:16 Christian, I believe God so loved the world, I do believe that, and I believe that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish. But I also believe, you know, predestination from the foundation of the Earth. So to me, I'm able to hold tensions in my mind rather than having to explain them. To me, I don't fit in a real good box and I believe them both.

You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!

But no one who is lost has lost one ounce of value to God. Even if you don't have a relationship with him, you have immense value to God.

Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

Faith is facing reality without being discouraged by it.