At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

You come from a wonderful family: Your father is the Divine. Your mother is the Earth. You have many siblings. And you are loved.

He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.

It is better to make a mistake than to do nothing.

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

Paint what you see, not what you know.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

... the future is under no obligation to wait patiently while we get ready for it.

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.