The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.

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.

Every family is a ghost story.

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

A Man consumes the Time you make him Wait In thinking of your Faults-so don't be late!

I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man.

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

Mortars and artillery don't discriminate against gender.

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

God never violates the trust we put in Him.

East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.