What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.

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.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

Everything we own tells too much about us.

I found that inevitably you cannot fit everything that is in that book into what is inevitably going to go on screen.

The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader.

A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.

Not knowing who God made us to be, trying to be who we are not, or even just desiring to be someone else, can only lead to a life of misery, frustration, and unfulfillment.

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.