Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.

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.

- "Sometimes I think people would believe in aliens before they'd believe in demons"- "That's how it is, now!

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.

In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.

Why buy a book when you can join a library?

I am much more optimistic about consumer-driven change than I am governmental change. Anything can happen in government, but I do think we consumers can drive true change.