To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.

A parent asked me today, "How do you get your children to pray in church?" My response? "Pray at home."

Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

Don't make Christ ride shotgun.

Never complain about growing old... Some never have the privilege.

God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn't there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs the consent form.

It is in our darkest cultures that the greatest saints rise, stand, and lead.