God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

I think we are in rats’ alley

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

Being a parent is joyful, but it's also haunted by the specter of loss.

If the truth is Impermissible, then we'll eventually be breaking all the rules.

The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

Children should be taught to question everything . . . everything they read and everything they hear.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

People are really stuck on their ideas about themselves.