While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.

A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.

A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.

God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.

The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.

Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

Out of the millions who write, only very few manage to create an impact.

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine.

Our lives show the accumulation of all of our varied wishes. Wanting something with all your heart will begin to slough away all of your untrue and idle wishes. Success comes from an undivided heart.

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

There are no men like me. There's only me

When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.

The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.

I had whale tartare when I was in Japan, but I probably wouldn't have it again.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.