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 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.

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.

See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

Wake Up At The Most Silent Time And Read The BIBLE.

It wasn't premeditated. It was what needed to be done. So I did it.

To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.

May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!

It's nice to have cool parents. They're cool with everything.

While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.

Believe that you have a destiny to be great.