You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

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.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.

Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife.

We change when the pain to change is less than the pain to remain as we are.

When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

What you know not now you will know hereafter.

Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.

If you want to live as a Christian, get comfortable with being uncomfortable.

If you don't think like a winner, you're not going to be a winner.