The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

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.

There is no limit to life. The only limit is the limit you put into life.

With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

I came to realize that we don’t raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Saying that you love is easy, but living up to those simple words is the most difficult thing you'll ever do.

Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.

Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.