Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

The ‘Lord’s Prayer’ is totally of life.

For the purpose of human health, it appears that it is wise to work and live below 4, 900 feet.

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

You don't have permission to disrespect yourself.

My daughter made me a Jerry Springer-watching kit, with crackers, Cheez Whiz, polyester stretch pants and a T-shirt with two fat women fighting over a skinny guy.

Don't rest on your laurels. There's always going to be someone behind you who's going to be better than you. So you need to get out there and keep working.