Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

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.

Don't use your past history as an excuse to be miserable. Use your past as a testament to show the world just how far you have come.

You can be as good as Rembrandt, but if no one discovers you, you will only be a genius in theory.

I don't work with a trainer. I just go to cheerleading practice and run a couple times a week.

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.

But I don't forget and I don't forgive.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.