Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him.

God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.

My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.

It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.

True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.

Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.

Disparate energies come togetherThat have never been aligned before.And so bound, Is the world illuminated, Changed forever in an instant…

Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it.

It's a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.

Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

Send the haters all my love. X and O.

It hurts to much to be close to you, but continually pushed away.

The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.