Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people group in the world.

The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil.

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to—equally important qualities in a friend.

All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.

Loving yourself is the first step towards knowing what you would and wouldn't take from people - it determines not just the way people treat you but the relationships you keep in the first place

Our faith can stand up to any question, but sometimes people ask questions—and keep asking questions—just to avoid facing their own spiritual needs and acknowledging who Jesus really is.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

I usually record all through the night, but I'm known for waking up early in the morning. Even if I had recorded till 3 or 4 in the morning I might wake up at 9 or 10. I never sleep till 1 o clock.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.