Our work is connected to much larger structures and systems that can be influenced and changed to align with God's intention to bring order and fruitfulness into the world.

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.

All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.

On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.

Because of the gospel, God is doing a new work, and he invites us to participate in this innovative work that affects the entirety of our world.

The gospel has brought a new identity in Christ that then allows our work to no longer be the source of our identity but the rightful expression of it.

The gospel moves us to see others as people created in God's image and that can have a profound impact on people's productivity and work satisfaction.

If you think your work is ultimately about a paycheck, then that will affect the quality of your work as well as the quality of your own life.

When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we'll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened.

Faith is an indispensable part of work, whether that work is paid or unpaid.

Do Not Lie to Yourself We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.

If a man could outpace his shadow, he would still find it waiting for him at the finishing line.

Who gave you a gun?''The army.''Why?''That's what the army does, Simon.

I really like Jeff Lewis and 'Flipping Out' and 'Interior Therapy.' I don't know why I'm obsessed with American real estate and renovation.

We judge everything as good or evil and forget that resistance, pain and difficulties are there so we can learn when we leave balance.

We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

You have to accept the way things are before you can move on.

You will never see'Altman's Great Film of the Seventies: The Director's Cut' because you have never seen a film of mine that wasn't the director's cut. I have never permitted it.