Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.

Some Christians live in such fear, they act as if they believe in the sovereignty of Satan rather than the sovereignty of God.

If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance.

We will never know how great God's love is until we first see how great our sin is.

Jesus is not a good way to heaven, nor even the best way. He is the only way to heaven.

The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.

With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together.

The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.

A high view of God leads to high worship and holy living, but a low of God leads to trivial worship and low living.

At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us.

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain causes eyes to sparkle cheeks to glow blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to really output architecture as cultural artifact.

In L.A., it's easy to get caught up in what you look like or how much money you have, and those aren't values I want my kids to adopt.

There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.