Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria

God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.

My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.

It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.

True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.

Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.

Failure is always new information, and those who are willing to suffer it repeatedly make it a stepping-stone to success.

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

You should employ your little grey cells.

The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also music that's being played out of windows.

The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'

The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.

I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.