Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.

If I can center down and strengthen the core of who I am, and the core of who I am is my relationship with God, then that helps me maintain peace deep down. If I can maintain a healthy spiritual core, I think that's enormous for helping the stress.

If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.

Our love for Christ is more important to Him than all of our service to Him. Strict obedience and services are not enough. Love for Jesus must come first.

Knowing where you are going takes the uncertainty out of getting there