A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.

My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.

God is awesome; he doesn’t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

The sacred time exist in days, weeks, months, seasons and years.

Student food." His eyes went to the tomato on the sill. "Whatever's in the refrigerator over pasta.

A director's dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché's are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions.

Wherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

My mom always told me that if you work hard, you can achieve anything. And it's true. It's one of the truest things ever.

Mathematics is the language of size.

I’m not a Christian because I’m strong and have it all together. I’m a Christian because I’m weak and admit I need a Savior.

I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.