“When you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.”

We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.

I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.

Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.

We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.

There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.

Love is never stationary.

I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,

I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.

God delights in answering our impossible prayers.

Don’t let other people decide who you are.

I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.

If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.

It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!

Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.

We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.

But the World endures but an hour. Spend it in prayer for the rest is unseen.

Sittin’ here resting my bones, this loneliness won’t leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home.

The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.

A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.

We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish.

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life’s sorrows.

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run (“ne saurait réussir ou durer, à la longue”, Fr.); all that involve (or imply…) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.