...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.

If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.

...faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers...

If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.

True spirituality is "the place where desperation meets Jesus.

Dreams without deadlines are dead in the water. Deadlines are really lifelines to achieving our goals.

...opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads.

You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.

When we do what's right, regardless of circumstances or consequences, we set the table for God to turn the tables. All we need to do is stand up, step in, or step out.

Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are.Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.

Girls who are on top of things must have three hundred ways of responding to tired thirty-five-year-old divorced men.

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

All the successful people I knew in life had high self-esteem and all the losers had low self-esteem.

It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.

Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

It is the want that creates the body.

Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]