Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

We forget that God's primary goal ia 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.

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to scue me from myself.

An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands

You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.

The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.

Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.

Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.