Greatness comes with discipline.

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

Keep asking yourself

Friendship is that essence which have all flavor in it, when it is lost the taste of life becomes tasteless.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

I consider myself 'local' in Sweden.

No matter how sorted you think you are, you will always be surrounded by people who are lost and angry. They will test you time and time again.

Even if a man has no natural ability, he can be a warrior.

Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.