Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

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.

To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.

I had a great time doing 'Torchwood,' I really did.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.

Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.