Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.

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.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

I am a 'little messiah' walking on earth.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

When I'm working, I get super lazy and I just do something that I'm familiar with.

Music is important for one's health.

Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

I never think about losing.

Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.