The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you.

My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.

God is awesome; he doesn’t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

It’s well known that he who returns never left

It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.

For me, almost always, the answer was cake.

A beautiful god is the most noble product of Man.

AMC is a fantastic network that does diverse programming, and does it at a really good level and of great quality.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.