Authority is 20% given and 80% taken. . . so take it!
Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.
We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?
The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.
If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together. . . and I knew it.
In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more scholarly works, namely, that the Reformed tradition is broader and more variegated than is often reported today, and that we need to recapture something of this in order that we don't end up unnecessarily narrow in our doctrine and in order to keep some perspective.
You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.
When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
Frequently what we say is rest is merely laziness. Our body requires respite and so does our mind and spirit. But a person should never rest because of a laziness which arises from the evil nature in his emotion. How often laziness and emotional distaste for work join to employ physical fatigue as a cover-up.