Kay Warren quotes:

In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country

Joy is the settled assurance that God is in control of all the details of my life, the quiet confidence that ultimately everything is going to be all right, and the determined choice to praise God in all things.

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

We try to bargain with God...I will follow you but don't touch my children, or my husband, don't give me cancer...We are afraid our surrender to God will unleash evil. But evil will come, because evil will come. We live in a broken world.

The greatest weapon we have against evil is doing good in Jesus' name.

An untested faith is an unreliable faith.

Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.

I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.

Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.

People with depression have something very valuable to teach us... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good.

That's the essence of our faith. It's living with hope in the face of mystery. We live a life of faith completely full of hope, staring mystery right in the face. You can't have one without the other. Your faith won't survive without hope, and hope won't survive without the realization that there are mysteries that will not be answered. If you can embrace both, you can have a vibrant faith.

When you are wanting to comfort someone in their grief take the words 'at least' out of your vocabulary. In saying them you minimise someone else's pain...Don't take someone else's grief and try to put it in a box that YOU can manage. Learn to truly grieve with others for as long as it may take.