We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

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.

Uncertainty. Vulnerability. Death. Hard truths have a secret power over us. We’d rather ignore them.

The most fundamental change in people at this time was a weakening of their sense of individual identity

Affect the main character or characters and you win the game.

From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone.

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.

I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.

You might be a redneck if you consider your license plate personalized because your dad made it in prison.

The ones who destroy monsters have always been humans.

I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord