We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.

Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars, Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent.

i am so crammedfull of fearsthat if you were to touch me i might eitherfly or break.

When we see marriage as our sole purpose, we find ourselves with nowhere to go when we finally arrive.

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

Problem with (John) Wockenfuss getting on base is that it takes three doubles to score him.