We become what we behold.

Our ferocious commitment to our children's safety and success, along with our genuine love, drives us to endure the often unhappy experience of disciplining our children.

Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts?

Sin is a fundamental failure to rejoice in what we should rejoice in.

Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.

The Church should spend less time trying to be "relevant", which can come across as disingenuous, and more time trying to align their hearts to the authentic gospel message.

Often the question of, "Who am I?" should be answered with, "Whose am I?

To obey the commands of Scripture can finally become a delight when we see that the reasons almost always center around God's love and provision for us in Christ.

We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.

Private worship excites us for public worship.

Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

It's hard to create new friendships outside sports.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.

SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each bewilder'd thought, And bless my labour'g mind.

Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.

I'm a big pasta guy, but I've cut it out to stay fast and lean.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.