The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

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

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

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

You have to decide what those issues are for you. What do you think disqualifies a person from holding public office? I believe that the endorsement of the right to kill unborn children disqualifies a person from any position of public office. It's simply the same as saying that the endorsement of racism, fraud, or bribery, would disqualify him - except that child-killing is more serious than those.

Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.