You're exhausted in the faith because you're looking at you. The more you look at yourself and the less you look at God, the more you get frustrated at yourself.

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you.

No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn’t have or do in this life.

I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss.

We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity