The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business.
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.
The world loves to be deceived.
The world wishes to be deceived.
Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.
It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything.
Falling didn't bother me. I could fall forever and not be hurt. It's stopping that's the problem.
When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.