To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.

I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.

She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.

Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.