Unless you learn to play a duet in the same key, to the same rhythm, a slow process of disengagement will wedge you apart, first secretly, psychologically, and then openly and miserably.

God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?

Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.

So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.

Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader of this age.

We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted – and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.

In your attempts to heal this beloved one, the Holy Spirit finds opportunity to keep the promise of Jesus - and indeed, to heal.

The ability to cultivate the land is the growth of any nation.

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.

I always say that if she treats her kids half as good as she treats the dogs, they'll be in great shape.

I'm against redefining marriage historically 5,000 years... because then it'll be re-defined. What if it's between a brother and a sister?

In my private life I do what I like. The night is my friend. If I don't go out, I don't score.

Speaking of which, would you like to explain to me how you’re alive