God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.

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.

Because a shadow was a thing that defined itself, and Nettie didn't have to fit anyone else's shape.

Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

Youth without beauty is half a prize.

From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.

Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

They write them long because they can't write them short.