Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.

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.

Divinities of the soul are life, light and love.

Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

Instead of running for President, why don’t you try walking on a treadmill?

Movies are not a growth business.

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.

Are you sure you want us to keep calling you 'Six'?" "You can say it's short for something." "For what? Sixty?

The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.