We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream.

Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.

...(O)ne thing that the world can count on is that we will not allow Israel to be crushed.

It wasnt the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.

James Watson summarizes the conclusion: “A predisposition does not a predetermination make.