Idolatry, like all sin, is devastating to the soul. It cuts us off from the comforts of grace, the peace of conscience, and the joy that is to be our strength.

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.

Believe that God is strong enough to save your children, no matter how you fail.

The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He's strong enough to make us want to do the right thing.

We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.

I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.

I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.

God never encourages self-reliance.

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.

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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

Not only am I a musician, but I'm a businessman and a family man.

I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.

There is an enemy-maker in each of us. We make enemies of the people we love the most and the people we know the least.

I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

I'm [going] through a mystified period of my life, where the more I learn, the less I know.

who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?

We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots.