The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.

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.

The test of glory and wealth is the hardest to pass

I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.

I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.

The only people who didn't like it [The Monkees] were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?

Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.

Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.

When life has beaten you up and you can't see a way to go on. Trust that tomorrow will change your fortune.

I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.