“It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.”

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.

Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.

When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.

Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.

The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.

If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.

Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.

You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.

Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’

Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.

Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.

Raoden turned to regard the large Dula. “What does it matter? It’s not like we have anything pressing to do. It’s actually quite pleasant up here-you should just sit back and enjoy it.”

I never actually thought I would be a real fighter, though. But I began to excel on the local circuit and I did well for myself.

I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.

That’s 270 million people with 206 bones each – will only be about 50 bones, one-quarter of a complete skeleton. That’s not to say, of course, that any of these bones will ever actually be found.

I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.

The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot.

I think that Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, all those states actually look pretty good for Hillary Clinton.

It’s amazing how much of that music I still listen to actually. I was such a fan of music, even after I got started professionally