At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.

Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.

A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.

God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.

The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.

The secret of joy is to give love without seeking it.

Sometimes things just slip past you, into your hands and out through your fingers. In my half-in/half-out state I began to wonder if that could happen to people, too.

Time whips up cream for those who are ready for dessert.

You can plant a dream.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

I think when I bought a house, that's when I thought I felt like that's a grown up thing to do.

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

Every tear should live its purpose. Don't ever wipe the reason away.

It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.