There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.

The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.

Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.