Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption.

The door of opportunity is always open

The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined.

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.

I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.

It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book "Think On These Things".