I've grown more OK with mystery as I've gotten older.

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.

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

Tears are the souls raindrops softening the hard ground life can produce.

Doesn't everyone deserve their own version of a happily-ever-after?

I thought I had nothing to be grateful for today, but then the universe became quiet a moment so I could hear my heart beat to the rhythm of my life.

Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I’m now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me!

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

Everyone here contributes to win the games, so there is no pressure on any one player.

I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.