To let the gospel of Jesus shape how we work means to heed the influence of both the psychological idols within our hearts as well as the sociological idols in our culture and profession.

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

These days, “getting lucky” means drinking an entire cup of COFFEE while it’s still HOT!

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to?

Not all books are for all people. We read for different reasons.

A mistake is just a temporary pause in your plan.

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.