“Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.”

Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”

The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

The church is in the hope business.

You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say “enough.”

They’re dedicated, patriotic Americans. They will work with any president. They want to have a good relationship with every president.

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.