“Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.”

I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.

We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.

God’s address is at the end of your rope.

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

We are becoming who we will be-forever.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.

The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.

In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.

Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

People are always asking what’s the secret of my success, and the answer is easy – at least for me. You have to have a strong inner drive.

An artist’s job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It’s not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

The principle of Sturgeon’s Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what’s best for the customer, without ever having to ask.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.