Nothing that occurs in life is random or without purpose. Lessons were found within each event in our lives that, positive or negative, ultimately instilled a peaceful mind in us.

Without adversity, there would be no growth, and without growth, there would be no lesson to be learned.

If life’s big puzzle makes you feel broken and shattered, we hope that our book will help you look at the spaces between each piece. You’ll find the answers here.

I write because I know magic happens

Nietzsche lampooned the romantics of his day (a half century later), noting that "they muddy the waters to make them look deep.

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

We have an incomprehensibly great God!

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.

To think and to live missionally means seeing all life as a way to be engaged with the mission of God in the world.

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.