The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve those with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you're honored by others.

I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins.

We do not have to make the Bible relevant - it already is! But we do have to show its relevance.

In the end we must be merciful to the fallen, show grace to struggling, and be patient with the doubting. But when God's Word is clear we must not-and we cannot-back up, back off, back down, back out, or backslide from the truth.

Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.

Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.