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

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.

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.

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way.

The realization that God could be female required the consideration that the Devil could be also.

It felt good to sit around and agree, to have a common enemy and a shared struggle. It felt good to be understood.

Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton

The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.

You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

Holland seems like a quaint toy.

Don't hide your goosebumps.