We’ve been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we’ll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.

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.

No amount of money can compensate losing your purpose

In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

Climbing is as close as we can come to flying.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Television, cable, features are always out there.

It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.

My confidence level is a tremendous high.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.