Do you require yourself to remember? In order to live as you can and should, you first must remember who you are and what you’ve been given.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

To solve your problems, stop worrying.

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.

I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

The holocaust is the solution to the Jews final question

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

I hate the word wholesome.

Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.