Living in alignment with your true self enables you to cultivate transparency and unshakable authenticity.

Desire. Enthusiasm. Purpose. Pleasure. Delight. Peace. Power. However you define passion, it is at the heart of your motivation.

Feeling passion fuels your spirit and feeds your joy.

Passion is a catalyst for action and provides you with the emotional stamina to stick with it, regardless of the obstacles.

Every day should have threads of passionate pursuits within it.

What turns you on, tunes you in, and lights your fire?

When passion is lit, the fire permeates your being with the positive expectation that all is well and everything will turn out great.

To be truly satisfied that your life is well-lived, the object of your passion is something you feel you must be, do, or have. What lights your fire?

Passion is not just about the object of your focus or desires—it is the compelling emotion, fulfillment, and intense enthusiasm that it engenders.

Are you impressed when you meet people who are filled with passion and conviction? Their energy is contagious and can make us all want “some of what they’re having!

When a person exudes passion, it is evident that they love what they are doing. Their passion projects an aura of confidence and decisiveness.

Perhaps being a Christian isn’t about experiencing the kingdom of heaven someday but about experiencing the kingdom of heaven every day.

Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense.

They had set forth to rid their town of evil and had managed to rid it of pleasure as well.

Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.

All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.