You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.

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 past wasn’t a guest you could ask to leave when you tired of its company. No, the past put up its feet and meant to stay.

God created you to see what you would show Him.

The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.

To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more.

Evangelism is not imposing anything on anyone; it is simply sharing the truth.

She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.

I take my pet lion to church ever Sunday. He has to eat.

I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.

Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.