...if you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

Anytime I'm not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I'm wasting my time. [Mark's brother-in-law, Matt ________, speaking]

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

...love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That is the kind of love Jesus shows to us.

...if you're walking with Jesus and you invite someone to walk with you, there is a good chance they'll get to know Jesus somewhere along the way.

Following Jesus is a verb.

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.

Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it.

...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.

He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.

My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

Whether we have a leak or roof that needs to be replaced, we can always count on Premier Roofing Services to get the job done the right way.

You end up making a home in every place you're at, in a small way. In any way you can find a kind of mindfulness.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

You gotta tell the story the way that it happened to you and the way you experienced it.