The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.

People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.

When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.

The power of God unto salvation is not our passion for God, but the passion He has exhibited toward us sinners by sending his own Son to redeem us.

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

God’s Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It’s not only descriptive; it’s effective too, God speaking is God acting.

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

I call to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.

George Martin is an incredible writer.

Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.