Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.

You are either in the Word and the Word is conforming you to the image of Jesus Christ, or you are in the world and the world is squeezing you into its mold.

You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.

Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.

A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.

The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.

My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.

How big is your God? The size of your God determines the size of everything.

You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.

When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.

God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

Just everything else, Mum. I just have everything else from you.

There was a sense of tightness in the room now, filling the space. Attraction was like that. It filled. It poured into you like batter into a pan, sticking to the sides.

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

Things happen to people by accident.

Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.

Most volcanologists die in bed.

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.