I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.

Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.

Reading the Bible can be like meeting someone you don't know who, oddly, somehow seems to know you deeply. It's uncanny.

Your challenge is not your challenge. Your challenge is the way you think about your challenge. Your problem is not your problem; it is the way you look at it.

I've never been surprised by God's judgment, but I'm still stunned by His grace.

Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.