All sin is equally wrong, but not all sin is equally bad.

A humble person is more likely to be self confident... a person with real humility knows how much they are loved.

... the way to thrive is to help others thrive; the way to flourish is to help others flourish; the way to fulfill yourself is to spend yourself.

To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.

Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.

People tethered to God by faith can let themselves go because they know they will get themselves back.

To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.

From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me.

All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.

The word "impossible" is only in the mindAnd not in the heart.If we can remain in the heart, There will be no end to our progress.

If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.

Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.

Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?" "Just shut up." "Can do." "Really? Doesn't seem like it." -Jacob and seth

I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.

The issue of xenotransplantation - such as transplanting animal organs into humans - is fraught with risks for animals, naturally, and for people.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.