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.

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.

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.

Becoming a failure requires no strength

It can only be that places left behind often become emotionally simplified - that they sound a single note of pain or pleasure, which means that they are never what they were.

Forget walking, right now I could fly."-Marcus

In the morning, before I leave the house, I say five things I love about myself, like 'You have really pretty eyes.' That way I can go out into the world with that little bit of extra confidence.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.

Killing and gangbanging, that's just wrong.

Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.

Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?