“Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.”

God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.

If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we’d be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today – not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.

If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!

You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.

Self awareness allows you to self-correct.

One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .

A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.

If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.

There’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.

If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.

You still won’t be perfect, but success isn’t about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity.

Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.

The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.

Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American writers in the midcentury.

Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.