“To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.”

A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.

You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.

Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

I’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.

A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.

So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

Story is the language of the heart.

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.

Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

The motive power of democracy is love.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.