“Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.”

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.

So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.

You’ve got to make sure that people have the opportunity to work at a good job, they have access to good healthcare, and that they have the opportunity to build wealth over time.

Like most authors, I’m a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access,

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

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

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.