The conviction that's underneath a lot of other statements is, "I don't trust Gjod.

My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.

God is awesome; he doesn’t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

They [Mike Tyson and Todd Phillips] actually struck up a really pretty incredible chemistry, those two, and I think they really trusted each other.

But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

It is unfair for our hospitals to bear a hugely disproportionate burden for mandated emergency health treatment for illegal aliens.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.

Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.