God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.

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

Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.

You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is an act of rebellion against the infinitely holy and majestic God.

I told him how winning never feels as good as losing feels bad and when he asked why, I told him that my wins were for someone else but my losses were all on me.

...the pleasure of finally making a clean break into misery after always dangling above it's canyon...

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style. Like me.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

The simple secret is this: put your trust in the Lord, do your best, then leave the rest to Him.

Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.

Thalia's shoulders relaxed. "I owe you one." "Two." "One and a half," Thalia said. She smiled, and for a second, I remembered that I actually liked her when she wasn't yelling at me.