The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true.

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

Living movements do not come out of committees.

All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.

Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

Life is never completely without its challenges.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.