The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

I guess there are never enough books.

Hate is infectious, but so is love, the difference between the two is one takes effort and the other one doesn’t.

Dead men make convenient heroes because they cannot rise to challenge the images we would fashion from their lives. And besides it’s easier to build a monument than to build a better world.

Yep, that girl was as dead as you could get inside. But Scarlett Jo wasn't worried. Not really. Because sometimes a person has to die in order to really live.

We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.

It was the beauty that caught me and held my soul hostage... Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers.

I'm in love with a lot of things. Some of those things love me back. And some of them don't - and one of them is Radiohead.

I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out.