God is not pre-occupied with sin, He’s already dealt with it.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they're not.

Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

You know your mind is renewed when the impossible looks logical.

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

Jesus did not command us to pray for the sick.He commanded us to heal them.

When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn't demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

Shine bright like a diamond.

Move forward for forward is progress but circles are movement.

And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.

Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.