Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

I wish that those who believe in the doctrines of grace would be more gracious. That's all I'd say... I'm an evangelical. I believe the doctrines of grace.

I have always been blessed with an enormous amount of energy. And so I didn't take care of my health at all.

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

If there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today.

God owes me nothing. He doesn't have to work for anything good in my life. That is only for those who are called according to His purpose.

Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.