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

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

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.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

Dreams alone with no acts toward achieving them are useless: no dreams at all is a condition of the pathetic.

Acceptance, " she told the young woman. "God is watching over him." The small room was quiet, and Emily felt her muscles relax as she prayed.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

I kind of knew that there were a lot of people that didn't go to church and normally wouldn't listen to people, but they would come and listen to me talk.

I must be the only person in the world who's looking forward to going into hospital. I can't wait to get it over and done with.

But monument themselves memorials need.

A dry soul is wisest and best.