“One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.”

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”

The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?

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

The church is in the hope business.

You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

In turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.

Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues

Well, filming in Hawaii, you know, is a blessing.

A passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations

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.