Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

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.

Thought for the day: Twitter...140 character limit...must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers...

Company is a burden to those at home in the solitude of their souls.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

(A smile) costs nothing, but creates much.

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

Lose some valuable things in very different places and wait for a while! If they come back to you, it means that you are living in an honest society and in a very rare one too!

The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.