Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

Those with an abundant mindset will have abundant wealth.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Relentless criticism in childhood can internalize a parental scorn that no amount of success will silence.

Put in the time. To position yourself as an expert, practice, apply, experiment, volunteer, and work within your area of knowledge to deepen your own understanding as you build real-life experience.

Do you want to make a tamale with peanut butter and jelly? Go Ahead! Somebody will eat it.

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.