The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

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.

It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it’s purpose in your life.

He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.

There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew.

Maketa, ” I said, throwing myself down in the sand. “I lost. The ocean won.”She smiled. “Was it a good feeling?”“Mm, ” I said.“That’s good, ” she said. “Have another rice ball?

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

Behind every great woman is a great behind!