True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

I've discovered that life doesn't always turn on the obvious things - people dying, marriages, all the stuff that gets carved on the tombstones - but little unrecorded things too.

I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way.

Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.

Two reasons I come down here every year: the food and there are multiple guys here every year.

Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?

It is the gift of heaven and not of reason.

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!