Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.

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.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation

There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry.

Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right.

In medieval times, artists had patrons that supported them and this is a similar thing, ... We're basically saying, 'Wouldn't you like to be a part of this'