Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

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.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

I lost control of myself a couple times in the playoffs. I have to keep cooler in the future.

One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.

I've spend my whole life hating and loving my brother with equal measure. I never though I would be the one to help drive a stake through his heart.