In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

It’s never too early to begin pointing your little ones’ souls heavenward.

Every friend we have represents a new world, a world that may not have existed had they not come into our life.

He put a hand on his throat, as though trying to stop the words, but they came anyway. "You're home. To me.

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

You can learn to focus on love in your heart rather than the symptoms of your physical condition.

Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.

Ben was really a contrarian but he didn't use those terms because he was really buying value.