The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

Serving people is more important to God than the religious activities we engage in

You are a bubble in the ocean of life that has come to enjoy the glints of the morning light.

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

I always push forward. It doesn't mean that I'll be perfect. I make mistakes -- but I learn from my mistakes, and move on.

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.

I relate to [women and children in women's shelters] on a personal level because I've been there myself.

Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life.

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.