“Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.”

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.

That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.

He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both

The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.

The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.

I can still enjoy sex at 74 – I live at 75, so it’s no distance.

When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.

We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.

I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.

Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.

I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.

My best friend and I love to make fish faces.

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.

There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.

After a life time of being tempted by doubts, I must tell you, it feels far better to be wooed by hope.

You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.

When in doubt dance it out.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.