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

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

Gods plan isn't a map for your life that you see all at once, but a scroll unrolled a little at a time.

We don't praise God to feel good, but to do good.

Don't worry about what you don't have if you do have faith!

What matters in life is not so much what happens to us, but what happens in us

People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's day-to-day lives. Jesus spoke to the crowd with an interesting style. When God's Word is taught in an uninteresting way, people don't just think the pastor is boring, they think God is boring!