Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will proceed until the hour of your death. If you were aware of how precious today is, you could hardly live through it. Unless you are aware of how precious it is, you can hardly be said to be living at all.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.