Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.

I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.

There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.

Our every thought, image or affirmation is a prayer. Therefore, if everything you think, feel, say or do is a form of prayer, then make it uplifted and exalted.

Hold up," Leo said. "You guys lost a dragon? A Real full size dragon?

Not getting rid of [Donald] Trump because there's a slew of Republican voters that don't want to get rid of Trump.

There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.

I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.