Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

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.

I'm just helping someone who is unfortunate. Is that a crime?

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you're interested in. It's a balancing act.

I am a patriot, and I protest speed limits by exceeding them.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.

It’s time to move the debate past the dogmatic view that carbon dioxide is evil and toward a world view that accepts the need for energy that is cheap, abundant, and reliable.

To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.

Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.