So many commands in the Bible require obedience without us experiencing any conviction to obey them. That is when our faith is truly tested.

The man who cannot obey God cannot say that he loves or trusts his Master. If God knows best then how dare we interfere with His will?

I want to commune with Christ and live in His fullness or I don't want anything to do with Christianity. I want all God has to offer.

Disclosing one's "deep, dark secrets" makes them no less deep or dark or secret than any other petty flaw.

This [egalitarianism vs complementarianism] is not an issue of chauvinism or discrimination. It is an issue of Biblical interpretation.

I walk into so many places where Christians are gathered and I get all excited, only to find that the fellowship among these Believers is dead! There is no openness, no authenticity.

God is only as far as we imagine Him to be. It's our fleshly desire not to run to Him that is ultimately our downfall.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

A psychologist’s job (if it’s done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself.

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.

Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.

I'm a mess right now I can't eat can't sleep Bills are piling high ain't worked in three weeks Ain't bathed can't shave cause my heart is so tender like living in a blender I'm shaken and I'm stirred

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.