“Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.”

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.

The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.

Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.

X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

Truth survives.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.