Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

If it grows on a plant, it's healthy. If it's made in a plant, don't eat it.

This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.

We have a choice of focusing on our problems or focusing on God, who holds the solution.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.