When your goal is not fame or notoriety, you can simply show up, offer compassion to people, and let God do His work.

As we work together as a team, God grows our dreams into something greater than we can accomplish alone.

Treat people like family because they are.

When God gives you a passion for a particular cause, there is a reason for it, and that reason is not to keep it to yourself. You are called to be a representative for those in need.

We want to care most about what Jesus cares most about.

Jesus cares more about our effort than our accomplishments.

Compassion without action is meaningless.

God does give times of peace in our Christian lives, but it is not all of the time.

Church may be primarily for believers, but the gospel is for all people.

If your heart is still beating, God is not done with you yet.

God may allow a disturbance, but we don’t have to be disturbed by it.

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

Wisdom is disguised inside the face of ‪failure”‬

Your greatest dreams will always slumber within the vicious depths of fear.

Success is like the most beautiful woman:pursued by many, loved by all, feared by few, courted by the patient and hardworking, and won over by good judgment.

I should be writing ...

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.

I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain.