You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.

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.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.

I drive past the Mad Men billboard every day and I can't believe I'm on that show.

The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast.

Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.

their relationship was built on friendship, and in matters of friendship he was boundlessly loyal. It was a relationship that would survive the harshest test.

The iPhone calendar isn't bad, but it isn't great, either. It only offers a day view and a month view - it doesn't have a week view, which drives me crazy.

We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.