When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.

Yesterday is a pile of rubble. Today is a pile of opportunity. Life takes a new dump each morning

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

My kids, they're always embarrassed when my voice shows up in something. I took them to Inside Out, and my voice comes in, and they were like, "Ugh, Dad, what are you doing? Get out of there."

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

I just have so many scripts to read!

I'm going to hell, ah... but you're laughing, so you're coming.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.