Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign "thank you, God."

We have a place where we can take people when they come to us with questions so we're not just speaking out of our own opinion. We're really speaking to them out of an authoritative place, not because of what we discovered, but because of what God says.

God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still come? If you knew that those you loved would laugh in your face, would you still care? If you knew that the tongues you made would mock you, the mouths you made would spit at you, the hands you made would crucify you, would you still make them? Christ did.

You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect.

I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.