“Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.”

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Move only when you have an advantage. It’s very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

I’d rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.