“One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.”

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.

The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.

It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.

Learn to trust His timing. Don’t get in a hurry; don’t grow impatient; don’t try to force doors open. Don’t try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

Don’t be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.