God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.

Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.

Pay attention. Be alert. Don't be in denial. Learn

As important as increase is, it is not an end in itself

If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.