One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that.

Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.

The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.

Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.

The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

I'll dream no more--by mainly mind Not even in sleep is well resigned. My midnight orisons said o'er, I'll turn to rest and dream no more.

Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.