The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.

The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.

...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.

She headed for a wide flat rock on the creek's bank, her posture still demanding 'no trespassing' but no longer 'trespassers will be shot.

if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

Prejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success.

Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight