Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.

To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.

Pique or policy. We would never know.

Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished.

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.