Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live!

There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts us beyond the building and pays the human body the highest compliment by making it His dwelling place, the place where He meets with us. Even today He would overturn the tables of those who make it a marketplace for their own lust, greed and wealth.

What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him.

You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.

You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.