When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?

I think God eventually changed my heart simply because I clung to my desire for Him, even though I wasn't sure how to follow through on that desire.

Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart.

Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles.

When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness.

Sincere doubts, handled properly, can become a gift.

Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.

If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

Believe me, my boy, women don't love a man for himself but as a weapon against other women.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.

We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

Funny thing how you first meet the woman that you marry. I first met the wife in a tunnel of love. She was digging it.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

I learned that by being entertaining you make a connection with another person.