We pray as if God’s chief objective is our personal comfort. It’s not. God’s chief objective is His glory.

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of 'systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, syst-susceptible sister,' which is easier done than said.

We all wanted babies - but did any of us want children?

I try to never be satisfied; this way I will always be challenging my spirit.

The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.

It doesn't matter how fast or how far you're going. If you're putting on your shoes and going out for a run, you are a runner, you are in that club.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

It's mental discipline that sets one apart, the ability to think differently and to generate energy in the right direction.

You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.