If love is our reason, we may veer off course sometimes, but we'll never be lost

If someone says something that has no basis in truth, it doesn't bother us much. It's the things we fear they might be right about that hurt.

We fear jumping because we fear falling. We fear being broken. But still, jump we must, because it's only in jumping that we'll ever find someone to catch us.

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own—not with ink, but with our daily choices.

I don't want to go to Peru." How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

If those also of the younger sort would ask of themselves, why God should not have the flower and marrow of their age? And why they should give their strength to the devil?

Martin Luther, when he walked in the woods, used to raise his hat to the birds and say, 'Good morning, theologians—you wake and sing, but I, old fool, know less than you and worry over everything, instead of simply trusting in the heavenly Father's care.

Jesus said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes" (Matthew 11:25). Why would this be? I believe that God desires that His message not be perverted, this message which has eternal significance. Intellectuals are seldom capable of conveying a message just as they have received it, without giving it a personal twist; whereas the simple, ignorant people transmit it faithfully.

You may hesitate, wondering whether you will have strength to live for God. Don't worry. God will give you what you need if you will just make the choice to live for him.

Bible says, "Know where you are headed, and you will stay on solid ground.

How do you know when God is at the center of your life? When God is at the center, you worship. When he's not, you worry.