People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness.

Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.

Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.

Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.

When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.