True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.

God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.

My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.

It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.

Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.

If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God.

Shakespeare: …the best way to peace is to have a still and quiet conscience. Or none at all, thought Gamache.

Bercelak’s kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame.

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

Well, I may not be the youngest candidate in this race. But I will be the youngest woman President in the history of the United States!

Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span.

Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.

I like a man who grins when he fights.