If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.

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.

If my fall made you smile, you might not want to witness what's about to happen when I get up.

All unbelievers in Jesus Christ is a House Divided Against Itself

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

Most women have a distaste for guns, and I am no exception.

The little boy in me always wanted to be a treasure hunter.

I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them