Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

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.

I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.

If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty

To sing is to express, to love is to hurt

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

Trouble is a thing that will come without our call, but true joy will not spring up without ourselves.

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority