We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.

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.

I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.

It is a fundamental misperception, " Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.

What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions and interactions.

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.