Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.

Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.

A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.

God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.

The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters."Computer: "I don't understand-"Issac: "Me neither. Pause

I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again.

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

I have a rule: Pretend you're going on a trip for two weeks, and pull what you'd wear on that two-week trip, and get rid of everything else.

Jump and the net will appear.

The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.