The single most loving act we can do is share the good news of Jesus Christ, that God saves sinners.

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.

She hadn't just drunk the Salvation Kool-Aid - she'd started to brew her own.

Ironically, the people who do not need Israel are gradually taking over Israel, and they're actually pushing out people who so need it.

I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

...he who goes down to the grave does not return.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.