The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God.

Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.

Three means by which God assures us that we do have eternal life: 1. The promises of His Word, 2. The witness of the Spirit in our hearts, 3. The transforming work of the Spirit in our lives.

The gospel is not only the most important message in all of history; it is the only essential message in all of history.

Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

God intends that everyone who has embraced the gospel become a part of the great enterprise of spreading the gospel.

Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives

... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Because God is sovereign, He is able to answer. Because He is faithful to His promises, He will answer.

You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

Some take advantage of natural resources to put the capital in the hands of the few, while some use these natural resources to benefit the majority, as we do in Bolivia.

Everything is absurd.

My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.

"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

Science fiction is an extension of science.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.