God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

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.

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

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.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

I don't like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that's the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don't do a ton of it.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

Shamanism is not a course, but a life journey.

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.