We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

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.

Failure is not the end

We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday.

It is a wise man who, when his spouse asks, "How does this look?" can answer honestly without upsetting her.

Clients have no trouble paying $5,800 for an hour in a Gulfstream corporate jet or $425 for a month of parking. But God forbid they spend $3 per on a glossy annual report.

I never wanted to be an author or thought I could be.

There isn't any New Man. The New Man is the old man, only he whines more.

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.

Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.