Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.

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 key to your success on planet earth is to find the field where your gift would be of the highest benefit

The greater the volume of thoughts you have to work with, the better the context you can create for developing options and trusting your choices.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them in a story.

Even a baby can write a poem. It doesn't guarantee the sale.

To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

You can criticize Trump and his wealth all day long, but you can't say he hasn't worked. You can say that about the Clintons.

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.