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.

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.

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.

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

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

A true friend lets you know that the door is always open, even when it’s closed.

I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.

We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.

And will I like being called a jazz-baby? You will love it.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.

They may not love you at the time, but they will later.