Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.

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.

I am learning to know my soul.

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that.

Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

Love? It's good. But, as you go on living, it changes. After time passes, all gets forgotten.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking.

Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.