The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises

Don't coast through life without a passion.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.

Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.

Intensity is all that matters in painting.

Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.