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

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.

...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.

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.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

It was the fear of good things happening, because they, sooner or later, would lead to something bad.

We're not even thinking about (the postseason) right now. We've been in a slump, so we're taking things day by day. We aren't looking to the future because we haven't addressed the present.

People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.

The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.

If you can laugh together, you can work together.