Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.

We need to stop making what people did to us bigger than what Jesus did for us.

Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words.

If you entrust God with your 'here,' He will take you 'there.' If you give Him your 'now,' He will take care of 'then.'

Allow God to continually soften your heart so that it beats for what his heart beats for - people.

Jesus didn't come to make us safe. He came to make us dangerous to the kingdom of darkness.

Christian life isn’t a one-person race. It’s a relay. You are not alone; you’re part of a team assembled by our unstoppable God to achieve his eternal purposes.

Don't allow any set back to become bigger than your come back

When there is a fight between your heart and your head, experience has taught me that the best thing you can do is pick up your Bible and remind yourself of what God says.

We have so many Christians who want to change the world, but they don't want to change themselves.

In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

From a withered tree, a flower blooms

But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.