The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.

God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.

"How are you doing?" - - - better than I deserve.

The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.

It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion.

How do you get from, "We do not know whether this is protectable human life," to "Therefore, we will not protect it?" Wouldn't the logic just as likely (some would say far more likely) be, "Since we do not know whether this is protectable human life, therefore we will protect it?" Why does the judicial uncertainty about the humanity of the unborn lead to unbridled license to destroy it?