“One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.”

Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.

I understand… the pressure is definitely hard, but I think just keeping your head on your shoulders is easier than it looks. I think if you know who you are, then I think you’ll be fine for the rest of the way.

To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.

There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it’s very hard to meet those expectations. That’s been a big stress in my life.

It’s hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself – PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.