You must make a counter-culture decision to focus on becoming more like Jesus. Otherwise, other forces like peers, parents, coworkers, and culture will try to mold you into their image.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.

Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.

You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.

As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.

I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

When you don’t have resources, you become resourceful.

God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.