I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears

If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.

The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.