Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.

It’s a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.

We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.

If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.

The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.

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

To stand in the presence of God, that is what the Gospel is. The Gospel is not primarily about forgiveness. It’s not primarily about good feelings. It’s not primarily about power. All those things are byproducts, sparks. It’s primarily about the presence of God.