If you are in Christ, you've been chosen to transcend the borders of your own glory, to reach out toward a greater glory, the glory of God.

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.

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.

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.

Most Christians speak to God about their mountain instead of speaking to their mountain about God!

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens.

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.

Fang, I think you better stop or Talon might turn you into a wolf kabob. (Vane)

I don't have time to think about the false controversy.