Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens.

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.

In our most vulnerable hour, it is helpful to remember our creative power.

Eight months in the woods have hardened me, or at least firmed up my beliefs that if a man’s going to fend for himself, then he needs to leave his credit card at home.

Today is tax day. A lot of people are hoping they get refunds. And that's just the folks here in the audience.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

Sometimes it takes some time out on your own to find your way back home.

Look for the blessing in all situations.