Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are.Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.

If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.

...faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers...

If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.

True spirituality is "the place where desperation meets Jesus.

Dreams without deadlines are dead in the water. Deadlines are really lifelines to achieving our goals.

...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.

...opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads.

You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.

When we do what's right, regardless of circumstances or consequences, we set the table for God to turn the tables. All we need to do is stand up, step in, or step out.

Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

Did you get the new iPhone yet? The iPhone that I have is outdated. It has two pieces and a hand crank.

Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.