'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

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.

Fricking son of a popcorn pimp!

When things are bad, be thankful...they are not as bad as they could be.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.

Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.

Think I'll roll another number for the road

[Answering the question 'If you had caused the end of the world, what would you do?'] I would try to fix it. I would go to bed on time and brush my teeth.

Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work

If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.