No one can out-sin the cross of Christ.

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.

It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.

The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.

Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.

I was trained completely by ear. And it was actually diving into the Bach that led me to get - there was like a Mel Bay "Teach Yourself How To Sight Read..."

Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.

All coaches religiously carry fungo bats in the spring to ward off suggestions that they are not working.

Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.

I think the women in the political positions will push very, very hard to see that there are loans and banks for women in Rwanda.