Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children.

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.

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

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.

If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.

War is the business of barbarians.

We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

Each meal is an opportunity to express yourself to others, sharing a different perspective of your personality.

All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people.

I can pick a lock. How do you think I got into my parents' liquor cabinet in middle school?

A boy has to peddle his book.

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.