Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.

Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.

Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.

There is no conceivable situation in which it is not safe to trust God.

Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare.

Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.

Running is the heart of what it means to be human.

People are always asking me if I'm Lynyrd Skynyrd or which one's Skynyrd, but I always say, 'Who'd ever have a dumb name like that?'

Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)

Elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

Even when you paint, you never stop drawing.

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, lovin you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars, tell me who i have to be, to get some reciprocity.

We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.

A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.