Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

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.

Everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other

I like the way men cry. They're efficient.

You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies

What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while so Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag And smile smile smile.

It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.

Be victorious in the home, and you are victorious everywhere.

When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.