If I had the authority to pick and choose who gets to know Christ as Savior, that would make me God. Thank the one true God that I am not.

If not from eternal separation from God, what exactly are we saving people from?

I don't think that we should waste our time criticizing other people. Self-criticism allows us to be the best version of ourselves.

Those who criticize the innovative concept of multi-site churches must also remember that at one point stained glass and hymnals were new as well.

There is no 'big sin' or 'little sin', it's just sin.

I could worry that I'm going to bleed to death, you know, from cutting my finger on a sandwich packet, you know, if I sort of open a sandwich.

It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.

Lovers are made by a kiss.

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the lottery: You have to play to win.

I write because I am curious. I am curious about me.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.

I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.