We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.

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.

Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?

For people with patience, time with a dog is a little slice of heaven.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

There are some people who are very powerful who I will never name, because I want to be able to work in this town.

My mom always used to say, "You can't say I love you before you can say I." And I think that sort of makes sense.

I think there's great stuff on television. I'm hooked on all these shows. I love watching these shows.

What happens, matters. Maybe only to us but it matters.