“Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.”

“God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.”

“Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.”

“Satan exploits pain by making it the central focus of the man’s (or woman’s) thoughts and attitudes.”

“If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.”

“The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!”

“There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.”