The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

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.

I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something - books or bebop. Or you label them as hippies and you can sell tie-dyed T-shirts.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.