When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

Doesn't the expansiveness of this make you think of the good Lord? Except we know the ocean ends while He goes on forever.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.

Once you experience forgiveness, your outer world changes.

Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

The story [of Allied] stayed with me, like a stray dog outside the office, waiting.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.