The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.

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.

Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.

What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do." - Nathan Phelps

One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

It is the stillest words that bring the storm.

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.