Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

Oh no, praying is great, without it the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden probably never would have been invented.

God is challenging us and each one of us has to decide to personally take up this challenge

It’s never too late to find that one person who can change you, for a reason, a season or a lifetime.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother.

The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round.