I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.

God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

If you want to know why you were placed on the planet, you must begin with God.

How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of grief? Not happiness, which is based on happenings. How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn't get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room.

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.