Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.

People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.

When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.

The power of God unto salvation is not our passion for God, but the passion He has exhibited toward us sinners by sending his own Son to redeem us.

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

God’s Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It’s not only descriptive; it’s effective too, God speaking is God acting.

Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.

Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings.

It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.

All people—all lives—are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.

God gave me the talent and I endeavor to give it back to Him with each new idea.

Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.