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

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.

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.

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Drew a mustache on your picture, threw your ring away.