Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else.

Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.

It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.

There is nothing gray about whether a follower of Christ should see 50 Shades of Grey. This is a black and white issue. Don’t go. Don’t watch it. Don’t read it. Don’t rent it.

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.