You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game.

Don’t expect a reward for what you do, from people, rather what matters is how you walk and are valued by God

Character is fate. Every day is training day.

I sat in a boxWith walls on each side.Not too tall.Not too wide.To think.To ponder.To pray.To hide.I sat in a box and cried.

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching.

This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire.

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.