Christ distributes courage through community. He dissipates doubt through fellowship. Max Lucado

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.

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own.

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.