In so many ways I am the opposite of Jesus' lifestyle. This keeps me up at night. I can't have authentic communion with Him while mired in the trappings He begged me to avoid.

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.

Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.

Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering.

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

Obedience isn’t a lack of fear. It’s just doing it scared.

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

The most important thing you need to do to accomplish your purpose is to stop, get comfortable, sit down and find time for thinking

You can never deceive or manipulate the future. Whatever it is you contribute towards it, is exactly what it will compensate you for.

When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.

Every day look at a beautiful picture read a beautiful poem listen to some beautiful music and if possible say some reasonable thing.

“He has many things I haven’t got,” said Jace. “Like nearsightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination.” - Jace about Simon

I always feel like when I've listened to a great song I know it, 'cuz it's the only time I'll ever get goosebumps or something like that.

Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself.