When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence.

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.

Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.

You professors, what do you teach your students? Do you instil in them the spirit of possession?

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I don’t know what would I have done without you in this difficult time for me and indeed, you are right, things happen for a reason and even mistakes help us to be better.

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

We are not here to get to tomorrow. We are here for today, to bloom today. We were made to Thrive!

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

Two are born to cross their paths, their lives, their hearts. If by chance, one turns away, they are they forever lost.