One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

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.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.

Character is what a man is in the dark.

One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

Can I ask you a question?" "You already have." He paused, considering. "Can I ask you two questions, then?" "You already have.

The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.

May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.