“The first act of love is always the giving of attention.”

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.

God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.

Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.

Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.

When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

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

Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.

Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

Keep eternity before the children.

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say

As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.

We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

She’s the kind of girl that makes you fall in love with life just by watching her live hers.

Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

The crypto currency community hasn’t decided whether they want to be anarchist rebels or to replace the establishment.

You’re not meant to be broken but you are meant to be rebuilt.