Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.

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.

He loved her all he could

Prayer was never meant to be magic, ' Mother said.'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled.'Because it's an act of love, ' Mother said.

Life is an act at a given moment.

when you expect something from your self and your own self disappoints you.... this is what i call a real disappointment . The worst disappointments comes from in-within.

He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the juke box, baby.