worldview and perspective on Irresistible

Recently, when I was in London, I went to the National Gallery. It was a weekday, but it was still crowded with people wearing headsets, staring at famous paintings, listening to a narrator explain th...

God’s garden, made “in the beginning,” does not lie behind us, but ahead of us, in hope, and, in the meantime, all around us as our place of work. History without gardens would be a wasteland. What th...

Once an idea has taken hold of the brain, it's almost impossible to eradicate.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

You cannot reason someone out of something he or she was not reasoned into.

The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.

Our gracious God, you repeatedly move towards us, even when we pull away. You are not deterred by our rejection of you nor our running from you. Your love is persistent. We confess our distrust of you...

God of the Impossible – Father, Son and Holy Spirit: There’s nothing too hard for you to do, Nothing too complex for You to understand, No place we go that You’re not there, No sin too heinous tha...

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Despite all we know about shame, containing it, let alone disposing of it, is a bit like grasping for mercury: the more pressure you use to seize it, the more evasive it becomes . . . It is ubiquitous...

If you can’t get out of it, get into it.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

The way to a person’s heart is to capture their imagination (mind), move their emotions (affections), and challenge their actions (will).

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

The one misery of man is self-will, the one secret of blessedness is the conquest over our own wills. To yield them up to God is rest and peace. What disturbs us in this world is not “trouble,” but ou...

God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.

..the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

Gracious God, you are omnipotent, reigning over the universe, and ruling over us. You make a way where there seems to be no way. You expand possibilities beyond our dreams. Yet our challenges shrink ...

We will often stop at nothing to avoid cognitive dissonance. We will twist logic, bend reason, conveniently forget facts, invent new stories, even destroy relationships—all in the name of preserving o...

You can’t, except in the lowest animal sense, be in love with a girl if you know (and keep on remembering) that all the beauties both of her person and of her character are a momentary and accidental ...

You called, shouted, broke through my deafness; you flared, blazed, banished my blindness; you lavished your fragrance, I gasped; and now I pant for you; I tasted you, and now I hunger and thirst; you...

Contradictions can bring us into touch with a deeper longing, for the fulfillment of a desire that lives beneath all desires and that only God can satisfy. Contradictions, thus understood, create the ...

According to the groundbreaking book The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, his research tells us that cravings drive our “habit loops.” Some of us crave escape or relaxation through the habit of a g...

God is looking for people through whom He can do the impossible. What a pity that we plan only the things we can do by ourselves.

The desire to feel loved is the last illusion: let it go and you will be free

You decide to buy a certain kind of car, and suddenly you see it everywhere. A friend recommends an obscure movie to you, and by the end of the week, three more people have mentioned it. You find out ...