Regeneration is the cause of faith, not faith the cause of regeneration.

Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.

He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.

To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.

We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.

In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.

The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'

The One who knows the fullness of my sin loves me as my Father right now.

God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

Perceive conflict as positive, creative, and issue driven. Don't allow personal attacks.

I didn't actually know what regret tasted like—but I imagined if it did have a flavor, it would be lutefisk.

My heart is like a singing bird.

Never let your dreams go away.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing more than to be in the moment-but which moment? Not that one, or that one, or that one.

Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.

I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.