The scarcity of time is the reason we have to concentrate on one thing at a time.

It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.

Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.

The only way to be productive is to realize we don't HAVE TO be productive. Our goal is to PLEASE God, not APPEASE God.

We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.

The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution

When you don't have your work clearly defined, there can never be any finish point.

Superficial efficiency seems cheaper at first, but it costs more the long run, with the cost being pushed off onto someone other than the one who saves a few bucks.

A spiritual connection with someone lasts forever, even when physical presence fades.

I never want to be a passive observer of life's possibilities.

Although the testimony of my mother’s life helped mold me and taught me how to live, the testimony of her last years and her death gave me insight into how to die.

Communication without a specific focus is just noise. It achieves little beyond taking time and energy.

I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.

Dull winter will re-appear.

My advice to you is never stop believing.

The kind of man who can be pro-choice about your baby could also be pro-choice about you.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.