Every time you and I bow our heads in surrender to the will of God, we embrace the cross and we manifest to the world the heart of Christ who bowed His head to the will of His Father.

Sound theology should always lead us to doxology and transformation.

Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.

Don’t wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.

God is good whether or not His choices seem right to us, whether or not we feel it, whether or not it seems true, and whether or not He gives us everything that we want.

The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God.

We are never more like Jesus than when we are serving Him or others. There is no higher calling than to be a servant.

Gratitude is a lifestyle. A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle.

Again and again, God's Word reveals that He is not as concerned about the depth or extent of the sin we commit as He is about our attitude and response when we are confronted with our sin.

Jesus has revealed Himself in the Scripture. If we want to know Him, if we want to know the Truth, we must devote ourselves to the reading, study, and meditation of His Word

Those who say in simple surrender 'Yes, Lord,' emerge from the experience spiritually rich, and become a source of grace and encouragement to others who are hurting.

[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

The firstsign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and actgreat. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assuresus, you must "not look too good nor talk too wise.

I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.

A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.

I don't write about my life in my column.

Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.

We have to say what's happening. There is crime, as you know. There's a lot of crime and there's a lot of problems. But I think together [with Enrique Pena], we'll solve those problems.

Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.