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.

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

Winning is great, but if it's not enough then then you'll never have enough!

[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.

I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.

When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

Breastfeeding is amazing; you can actually feel your stomach shrink with every feed.

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

My profession is called record production.