Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

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.

Be an empowertarian. A person who empowers their own life and that of others.

life is full when you know where you are and where you are going.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption.

You're dressed for dancing, " she said in her throaty stage voice. "Being undressed for dancing occured to me, but I didn't think Merris would like it.

Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

Every family should have at least three children. Then if one is a genius the other two can support him.

I think [Winston] Churchill said it was " [democracy] the worst of all systems except for all the others." And that's probably true. It's never gone easily.

Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see that than fake anything any day.

It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that.