“At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.”

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.

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.

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.

See how time makes all grief decay.

I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry

Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer.

And being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, ‘Oh, my God. There’s no hiding here.

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

The business of church is ultimately people. You’re trying to heal people, grow people, teach people, and mend people. And when leaders spend all of their time helping and growing other people, they ignore their own growth.