If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.

I think God eventually changed my heart simply because I clung to my desire for Him, even though I wasn't sure how to follow through on that desire.

Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart.

Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles.

When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness.

Sincere doubts, handled properly, can become a gift.

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?

Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

Only the Maker makes a man.

Prolonged stress causes the human body to make adaptations so it can continue to serve you at a functional level. The more stress, the more adaptations.

Step out from the crowd because it'll lead to nowhere..!

A hand in mine.. hot. Breath on my neck... sweet. The feel of lips on my own... forbidden.

He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.

Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.

It's okay to learn from every experience, and it's okay to make mistakes.

Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.