When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.

Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.

Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering.

Obedience isn’t a lack of fear. It’s just doing it scared.

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives .

Private prayers are the catalyst for public miracles.

Any philosophy is a sacrilege against creation. It just gives people the kinds of explanations that they want to hear.

Think of it as a life experience, " I mumbled. "Isn't your dad always saying we need more of that?""I don't think prancing around PJ Jamieson's pool in our underwear is exactly what he had in mind.

Think objectively.Think operationally.Think optimistically.Think outstandingly.

There's a big difference between poll workers and pole workers. Sadly.

A lot of people... use a calculator!

The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps.

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

A man can die but once.