God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

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.

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

To live is learn, and to learn is to live. Live. Learn.

It's just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it's quite difficult, sir to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down in street and stamped on.Pg.406

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too.

I'm not a big slasher film fan.

The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.

When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice.

Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.