Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.

It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.

For as many people as I quote-unquote lost respect from, I gained respect from a lot more. I know that's a fact.

Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

Hazel blinked. “Two gods had a horse for a kid?” “Long story.

I can't imagine anybody not wanting to make sure that noncitizens don't dilute legitimate U.S. citizens' vote.

I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.

At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.