Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

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.

In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied

I've got just as much luck with locks as I do hearts. In other words, no luck at all.

Never do anything as though you are a professional armature

It is not yours to finish the task but neither are you free to take no part in it.

Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.

I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.