You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.

To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.

I think that grace and love always rattle people.

The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.