Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

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.

When you love with your heart and soul, then you long and belong. How could there be a separation?

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

No one will know what you mean by saying that 'God is love' unless you act it as well.

Lies can destroy, but not create.

I think that being on the road and doing more and more stand-up has allowed me to figure out... like, I don't think I'll ever be Bill Hicks, but I think I'm figuring out what my opinion is on things.

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.