Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

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 can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.

Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life.