Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.

Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

So where did you get your information? Werewolves for Dummies? No, wait, you watched Underworld? Or maybe you were raised by wolves? Stop mewhen I’m warm.” - Shella

In utter humility, bow to What Is. And in time, crying one's guts out, howling, bowing to IT, "knowing" comes. As a gift of the Divine.

...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..

Good design is serious business.

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.

In order to find, you must first search.

I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor.