What we do is more fundamental than what we accomplish.

from TBD

Trust is the Christian way of life.

from Things That Count (ISI Books, 2000), 200, emphasis original.

We are ultimately not makers but responders.

from Things That Count (ISI Books, 2000), 158.

The Christian life is supposed to be in large part learning to rise to the occasion, to accept the unexpected.

from Letters to Ellen (Eerdmans, 1996).