“Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.”

There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.

It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.

Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.

A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.

Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.

For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.

Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.

If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.

I don’t think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes.