Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.

Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.

Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.

When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.

It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).