“Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn’t deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you.”

“You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.”

“When you nag, you become the problem, an he deals with it by turning you out, but when you dont nag, he deals with the problem.”

“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year”

“Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life. ”

“But the problem is not really with God or his word. The problem is with us. The difficulties we have with those texts that deal with the responsibilities of men and women lie in us-not in the clarity or goodness of God's word. We can expect God's word to speak clearly. And it does.”