Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships. And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.

You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.