Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

To yearn for love is for kingdom reality to residue in your psyche

Even if you're an outstanding fighter, you can lose your life with one mistake.

Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’s goods.

The hope of today is the dream of a brighter tomorrow.

Ambition is the capacity for unhappiness.

There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed.

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.

Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.