“Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste.”

“One very difficult aspect of sin is that my sin never feels like sin to me. My sin feels like life to me, plain and simple. My heart is an idol factory, and my mind is an excuse-making factory.”

“Healing comes through God's work, and God deals differently with us when we deal differently with him.”

“Do we use the Word of God only as a cue card to commandeer our external behavior?”

“Lord, please protect me from Your people.”

“We have, by God's grace, been given another day to serve and love, laugh and learn, pray and ponder. Spring is ready to burst into the open air, and we are ready to embrace it.”

“There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.”

“A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives.”

“Is God giving you victory this day, if not this whole day, how about this very minute?”

“The more God-centered our worship practices, the more mercy-centered our life.”

“[W]hen you make your mistakes in public you will learn that they are mistakes and in being corrected you will grow. It also reminded me that being wrong and responding to correction with resilience was a higher virtue than covering up your mistakes so your students and the watching world assumed that success meant never being wrong. Working from your strengths and cultivating resilience in all matters of life have always been guiding principles for me.”